band-aids offered a quick fix for a clumsy cook

a melanin-deficient hiker developed “glacier cream” 

(sunscreen) 

East India Company officers lacking sickle cells poured the first G&Ts

(though they should’ve just left the subcontinent alone)

Louis Braille was a blind book-lover

Jules Léotard a performer too muscular and vain for fashion’s bulky layers 

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin opposed the death penalty 

(or perhaps this belongs with Nobel’s dynamite)

and Earl Tupper was a businessman who must’ve had a weak appetite; 

now I’m waiting for an environmentalist aeronautical engineer to invent 

a bird-safe, up-cycled carbon-neutral 

dirigible