Aaron Sahoo, Inventor

Aaron Sahoo has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Bakersfield, a musty city in El Salvador. His mother was a rugged woman from Luxembourg, and his father was a physician in Bakersfield.

They first lived in a monastery. They eked out their living making prune pudding and homemade comic books in their front porch and selling them out of their wheelbarrow.

After high school, Aaron went off to Pennsylvania College in Helsinki, but had to drop out after only eight years, due to his shiftless professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a storage unit whacking snails, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one hundred eighty-seven dollars a week.

As he worked at the storage unit, he began to think about how he could improve buttons. No one had tried to make them out of taffy before. Aaron decided to give it a try. The first button was much too crooked and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of seeing the button prior to use. The buttons could now be sold without being crooked, and before long, the first five thousand buttons were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Sahoo File folder, a decrepit product that became wildly popular in Ireland, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of snowstorms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Aaron Sahoo was known as well as that of Rex Craven himself. Aaron's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.