I am Zebulon. I am an inventor. I build things to help in Colonial America.  My father was Zephaniah the inventor. I took his workspace when he died and built a water refiner for our town. I make very little money because I am not famous like Benjamin Franklin and I only get paid when I sell my inventions to the town. My workspace is an attic over my mom’s store. My Mom is named Zophar. I spend a lot of the day writing blueprints that probably won’t leave this attic. If they do then it is most likely something to help the town survive. When I have a working invention I sell it in my mom’s store as a helpful device. Once this is done I go back to my attic and think about the next invention that I could build. Hmmmmm, time is passing and nothing is coming to mind… Maybe I can build a device that sends messages over long distances. I have an idea that if you stretch a long string far away, people could tug on it a certain number of times for each letter and send messages that way.

I wake up in the attic because all inventors live in attics. I think of a helpful new machine to build that could change how we do things today. I think about the needs of the people and what I could do for them. I know people are not getting enough food and people are starving so maybe i can build a machine that grinds corn or a machine that could clean water from the ocean. I start a water refining machine. It takes water into a pot and cooks it until it all turns into steam and the dirty stuff is left in the pot. The steam comes to another plant until it turns back to water, but without salt or dirt or mud. There is a pulley that has buckets that when turned pulls water out of the ocean and into a cooking pot, and when it reaches the next pot it can be scooped out by any person and people can drink water. I  go and attempt to convince the land owner to install one and if he does other people who are not from town might see it and want to buy their own and i can patent it. Now people are not allowed to buy them from people who are not me. Now people walk into my shop constantly seeing if they can install one in their farms and I give it a high price.