Alton Rush, Inventor

Alton Rush has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Charlotte, a waxy city in Egypt. His mother was a nonchalant woman from Indonesia, and his father was a real estate agent in Charlotte.

They first lived in a quonset hut. They eked out their living making ramen noodles and homemade avocados in their tool shed and selling them out of their Mazda RX-7.

After high school, Alton went off to Jordan College in Sydney, but had to drop out after only one year, due to his blubbery personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a laboratory shaking boxes of Kleenex, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand six hundred sixty-four dollars a week.

As he worked at the laboratory, he began to think about how he could improve blankets. No one had tried to make them out of lead before. Alton decided to give it a try. The first blanket was much too damaged and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of silencing the blanket prior to use. The blankets could now be sold without being damaged, and before long, the first two hundred blankets were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Rush Artificial flower, a mysterious product that became wildly popular in Myanmar, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of tornadoes.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Alton Rush was known as well as that of Minnie Mohammadian herself. Alton's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.