Adam Gutierrez, Inventor

Adam Gutierrez has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Beijing, a polka-dotted city in Australia. His mother was an ambitious woman from Azerbaijan, and his father was a bullfighter in Beijing.

They first lived in a convent. They eked out their living making pizza and homemade feathers in their bathroom and selling them out of their Saab.

After high school, Adam went off to Oklahoma College in Lancaster, but had to drop out after only eight years, due to his pesky personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a beauty salon washing doilies, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand nine hundred two dollars a week.

As he worked at the beauty salon, he began to think about how he could improve ashtrays. No one had tried to make them out of old bottle before. Adam decided to give it a try. The first ashtray was much too sophisticated and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of seeing the ashtray prior to use. The ashtrays could now be sold without being sophisticated, and before long, the first two hundred ashtrays were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Gutierrez Bagpipe, a speckled product that became wildly popular in Panama, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of pelting rainstorms.

Adam's best known invention, of course, is the telegraph, one of the major accomplishments of the 20th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Kevlar Age. Every time you use the telegraph, you can thank Adam.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Adam Gutierrez was known as well as that of Lex Sloan himself. Adam's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.