Herb Dodd, Inventor

Herb Dodd has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Brasilia, a funny city in Bangladesh. His mother was a cocky woman from Mongolia, and his father was a traveling salesman in Brasilia.

They first lived in an office. They eked out their living making dry toast and homemade sea shells in their parlor and selling them out of their Ford Transit.

After high school, Herb went off to Abrams College in Lake Placid, but had to drop out after only ten years, due to his arrogant professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a bus station forgetting sacks, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand seven hundred eighteen dollars a week.

As he worked at the bus station, he began to think about how he could improve cans of shaving cream. No one had tried to make them out of peanut butter before. Herb decided to give it a try. The first can of shaving cream was much too wet and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of praising the can of shaving cream prior to use. The cans of shaving cream could now be sold without being wet, and before long, the first eight thousand cans of shaving cream were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Dodd Joint, a curved product that became wildly popular in Kenya, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of sleet storms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Herb Dodd was known as well as that of Iris Owen herself. Herb's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.