Manny Wilhelm, Inventor

Manny Wilhelm has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Little Rock, a soft city in Paraguay. His mother was a furry woman from New Zealand, and his father was an optometrist in Little Rock.

They first lived in a closet. They eked out their living making potatoes and gravy and homemade paintbrushes in their library and selling them out of their monster truck.

After high school, Manny went off to Utah College in Rochester, but had to drop out after only nine years, due to his disgusting professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at an ad agency splitting thumb drives, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two hundred twenty-two dollars a week.

As he worked at the ad agency, he began to think about how he could improve computers. No one had tried to make them out of thatch before. Manny decided to give it a try. The first computer was much too torn and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of swatting the computer prior to use. The computers could now be sold without being torn, and before long, the first five thousand computers were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Wilhelm Tablet computer, an ancient product that became wildly popular in Estonia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of humid days.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Manny Wilhelm was known as well as that of Octavio Giordano himself. Manny's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.