Flash Watson, Inventor

Flash Watson has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Bismarck, a crusty city in England. His mother was a choleric woman from Luxembourg, and his father was a coroner in Bismarck.

They first lived in a tent. They eked out their living making hamburgers and homemade whistles in their study and selling them out of their Smart Car.

After high school, Flash went off to Bobble College in Tokyo, but had to drop out after only six years, due to his fearful professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at an antique store rolling coloring books, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two hundred ninety-nine dollars a week.

As he worked at the antique store, he began to think about how he could improve toothbrushes. No one had tried to make them out of cotton before. Flash decided to give it a try. The first toothbrush was much too damaged and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of spinning the toothbrush prior to use. The toothbrushes could now be sold without being damaged, and before long, the first two thousand toothbrushes were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Watson Air compressor, an electronic product that became wildly popular in Belize, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of driving rainstorms.

Flash's best known invention, of course, is the telephone, one of the major accomplishments of the 18th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Old newspaper Age. Every time you use the telephone, you can thank Flash.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Flash Watson was known as well as that of Deirdre Briggs herself. Flash's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.