Reno, NV-"Is there any more feverish dream of glory in the world, outside of Islam, than the dream of being an inventor? Certainly not in the United States; and probably not in Japan or any other industrial country. An invention is one of those super-strokes, like discovering a platinum deposit, or a gas field, or writing a novel, through which an individual, the hungriest loner, can transform his life overnight, and light up the sky. The inventor needs only one thing which is as free as the air: a teriffic idea." -Tom Wolfe
On the mean streets of Manhattan in the early 1950s, fledgling inventor Jerry Lemelson began pursuing just such