Giovanni Sokolov, Inventor

Giovanni Sokolov has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Laramie, a wet city in Austria. His mother was a hysterical woman from Singapore, and his father was a biologist in Laramie.

They first lived in a duplex. They eked out their living making candy and homemade cell phones in their garage and selling them out of their Buick Le Sabre.

After high school, Giovanni went off to Maine College in Laramie, but had to drop out after only three years, due to his enraged professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a pharmacy expanding keys, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one thousand one hundred eighty-eight dollars a week.

As he worked at the pharmacy, he began to think about how he could improve Helmholz resonators. No one had tried to make them out of oak before. Giovanni decided to give it a try. The first Helmholz resonator was much too archaic and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of nuking the Helmholz resonator prior to use. The Helmholz resonators could now be sold without being archaic, and before long, the first seven thousand Helmholz resonators were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Sokolov Advertisement, a shiny product that became wildly popular in The United States, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of drought.

Giovanni's best known invention, of course, is the loom, one of the major accomplishments of the 19th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Peat moss Age. Every time you use the loom, you can thank Giovanni.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Giovanni Sokolov was known as well as that of Calvin Weiner himself. Giovanni's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.