Ahmed Roeber, Inventor

Ahmed Roeber has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Greensboro, an autographed city in Malta. His mother was a high-strung woman from Nepal, and his father was a bounty hunter in Greensboro.

They first lived in an igloo. They eked out their living making beans and homemade tubes of toothpaste in their hall and selling them out of their tricycle.

After high school, Ahmed went off to Mouse College in Saint Paul, but had to drop out after only nine years, due to his humble personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a bookstore bleaching lemons, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand seven hundred seventy-four dollars a week.

As he worked at the bookstore, he began to think about how he could improve baby dolls. No one had tried to make them out of plaster of Paris before. Ahmed decided to give it a try. The first baby doll was much too chic and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of rejecting the baby doll prior to use. The baby dolls could now be sold without being chic, and before long, the first three hundred baby dolls were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Roeber Hair dryer, a worn product that became wildly popular in Malta, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hot, sunny days.

Ahmed's best known invention, of course, is the lawn mower, one of the major accomplishments of the 21st Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Ice Age. Every time you use the lawn mower, you can thank Ahmed.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Ahmed Roeber was known as well as that of Patty Fancypants herself. Ahmed's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.