Bosco Findley, Inventor

Bosco Findley has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Little Rock, a greasy city in Somalia. His mother was a mean woman from Iraq, and his father was a waiter in Little Rock.

They first lived in a closet. They eked out their living making chopped liver and homemade diaries in their lounge and selling them out of their Harley.

After high school, Bosco went off to Utah College in Vienna, but had to drop out after only one year, due to his lively personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at an office supply store smudging microphones, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four hundred eighty-four dollars a week.

As he worked at the office supply store, he began to think about how he could improve spoons. No one had tried to make them out of stainless steel before. Bosco decided to give it a try. The first spoon was much too stuffed and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of jabbing the spoon prior to use. The spoons could now be sold without being stuffed, and before long, the first five hundred spoons were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Findley Bird cage, an important product that became wildly popular in Ireland, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of dust storms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Bosco Findley was known as well as that of Lauren Shelby himself. Bosco's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.