Life is precious, choose wisely how you spend it. Don't do this…
In the North East of England, there lived a man called Maurice Ward - he was an inventor, he liked to tinker in his garage.
Although he had no formal qualifications, he actually created something with the ability to help the world.
In 1985, inspired by an airplane disaster, where deaths occurred from smoke inhalation, before the airplane even took off, he set about inventing a plastic that could withstand heat to help ensure that would never happen.
And by all accounts he was successful and although no-one believed him starting out, tests were carried on national tv, with a blowtorch on an egg covered with Starlite for two minutes and it was still raw inside.
After this, every agency in the world wanted to buy Starlite from him.
Like NASA
And the British Ministry of Defence
Even Boeing, who you would have thought might have been top of his list, as it was a disaster on one of their planes that inspired the invention.
But the company according to Maurice was never the right one, who would do the right thing with his product.
Oh and that he wanted to retain 51% in the company meant that when he died in 2011, he took his formula to the grave…
Starlite could have had so many beneficial uses in the world, now we will never know.
And Maurice spent 40 years arguing about money.
Doesn’t that seem like such a waste to you?
What would you have done?
I think I’d have let Boeing have it and settled for a few million and travelled around the world in my final years.
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