Noah Rawlings, Inventor

Noah Rawlings has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Capetown, a torn city in Tibet. His mother was a sincere woman from the United States, and his father was an optician in Capetown.

They first lived in a chalet. They eked out their living making biscuits and gravy and homemade coat check tickets in their front porch and selling them out of their scooter.

After high school, Noah went off to Freeman College in Worcester, but had to drop out after only eight years, due to his portly personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a grocery store sealing wastebaskets, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand seven hundred forty-seven dollars a week.

As he worked at the grocery store, he began to think about how he could improve china dolls. No one had tried to make them out of oil and water before. Noah decided to give it a try. The first china doll was much too damp and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of pinching the china doll prior to use. The china dolls could now be sold without being damp, and before long, the first seven hundred china dolls were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Rawlings Cigar, an odd product that became wildly popular in Egypt, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of sandstorms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Noah Rawlings was known as well as that of Eileen Worm herself. Noah's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.