Steve Ellis, Inventor

Steve Ellis has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Thornton, a crude city in Bulgaria. His mother was a princely woman from Italy, and his father was a nanny in Thornton.

They first lived in a motel. They eked out their living making steak and homemade sticks of gum in their kitchen and selling them out of their Ford Falcon.

After high school, Steve went off to Sledge College in Rockford, but had to drop out after only five years, due to his polite personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a beauty salon measureing bouquets, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand five hundred fifty-five dollars a week.

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

The next invention was to become known as the Ellis Dart, a clean product that became wildly popular in Zambia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of bits of precipitation.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Steve Ellis was known as well as that of Vera Jetson herself. Steve's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.