Henry Marsden, Inventor

Henry Marsden has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Midland, a nifty city in Uganda. His mother was a tall woman from the Philippines, and his father was a soldier in Midland.

They first lived in a treehouse. They eked out their living making potatoes and gravy and homemade necklaces in their bathroom and selling them out of their scooter.

After high school, Henry went off to New Jersey College in Frankfurt, but had to drop out after only eight years, due to his generous professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at an electronics store studying toilet plungers, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand five hundred fifty-two dollars a week.

As he worked at the electronics store, he began to think about how he could improve apples. No one had tried to make them out of stone before. Henry decided to give it a try. The first apple was much too ruined and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of picking the apple prior to use. The apples could now be sold without being ruined, and before long, the first four thousand apples were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Marsden Lemon, a porcelain product that became wildly popular in Nigeria, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of gales.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Henry Marsden was known as well as that of Phillip Fodor himself. Henry's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.