Bub Charles, Inventor

Bub Charles has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Columbia, a mechanical city in Bangladesh. His mother was an ambitious woman from Puerto Rico, and his father was a butler in Columbia.

They first lived in an apartment. They eked out their living making country glazed ham and homemade mirrors in their guest room and selling them out of their Ford Focus.

After high school, Bub went off to Lawson College in San Antonio, but had to drop out after only one year, due to his exuberant professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a video arcade controlling cellos, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand nine hundred forty-two dollars a week.

As he worked at the video arcade, he began to think about how he could improve Band-aids. No one had tried to make them out of brick before. Bub decided to give it a try. The first Band-aid was much too torn and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of wrapping the Band-aid prior to use. The Band-aids could now be sold without being torn, and before long, the first nine thousand Band-aids were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Charles Van Gogh, an electronic product that became wildly popular in Sri Lanka, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hot days.

Bub's best known invention, of course, is the revolver, one of the major accomplishments of the 17th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Gold brick Age. Every time you use the revolver, you can thank Bub.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Bub Charles was known as well as that of Ying Romano herself. Bub's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.