About Bruce
Bruce Douglas Clark
If I can do it, you can too!
Bruce Clark is a Minnesota inventor and entrepreneur with many unique start-up businesses and successful products.
His most appreciated invention is the cupholders mounted on every seat in movie theaters and sports stadiums in America.
This novel is based on some of his own experiences and theories. Considering the sci-fi genre, he’s embellished on characters and theories to make the story more exhilarating.
Be prepared to open your mind in the most imaginative way, to not only think outside the box but to eliminate the box entirely.
“Element 115 is a super heavy element. The craft uses 223 grams in a triangle shape, of this element for its fuel. It’s a very unique element, when exposed to added protons, it changes to Element 116 and produces its own gravitational field, its own anti-gravity field. It’s what is used to propel the craft and creates distortions of space/time around the craft. It’s an amazing, stable material. This element and its effects would be a game changer for the world.”
Bruce Douglas Clark is a highly successful self-taught serial inventor and entrepreneur from Minneapolis, MN. He is known for inventing, patenting, and licensing unique new products—his most famous being the cupholder used in every movie theater and sports stadium across the country as well as around the globe. He is also co-inventor of a ladder accessory used in commercial and residential construction—an essential item that has not only been a financial success but also greatly improved safety for construction workers across the United States and around the world.
Despite describing himself as a “lackluster and aimless” high school student, Clark soon flipped that image on its head. In addition to being an inventor, over the past 40 years Clark has been a successful business owner and employer. He has owned and operated several auto repair shops, as well as multiple photography retail stores, and an In-Home Tutoring business.
Among his other passions, Clark has a winning record as a semi-professional race car driver and is an avid ultralight flyer and SCUBA diver. Highly competitive, as a young man he won a house on a television game show by studying trivia in People and US Magazines along with every “rendition” of Trivial Pursuit game prior to auditioning.
Clark is still an active businessman and inventor but, in addition, his passion today is helping other “dreamers and doers” achieve their own version of the American Dream. He believes strongly that our republic was built by and thrives upon free enterprise and the contributions of inventors and entrepreneurs across all walks of life. By helping others succeed with their ideas for a product, service, or company, he is certain he is helping keep America strong.
Only in America…
where your dreams can, indeed, come true!
Racing
Driving a race car was a thrill, and worth the effort it took to fulfill that dream. From buying a 1-year old race car I could barely afford, to winning 11 out of 17 races and setting 3 track records, I learned a lot and expanded my horizons. What I learned included the hard lessons of crashing along with the results of a winning attitude.
Cupholders
Walk-Through Railing System
In 1998, I started a business with a friend inventing Fall Protection accessories for construction workers. That collaboration led to the invention of this ladder accessory, which is selling well to this day. It allows a worker to step through a ladder onto a surface instead of needing to make the dangerous move of stepping around a ladder while at the top.
Game Show Winning
My wife and I had a growing family but we couldn’t afford a larger house. After a “by chance” audition and participant on Gambit with Wink Martindale while in Las Vegas, we ended up winning $100.00 cash along with $600.00 worth of coupons for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Bit O Honey, all of which led to auditioning and participating in Dream House with Bob Ubanks in L.A. Long story short, we won a house, including 6 rooms of furniture!
Flying
Businesses
After the success of owning my own business and selling it for a profit, and inventing the cupholder, business and invention were in my blood. Over the years, I started five retail photography stores, an In-Home Tutoring Service business, a ladder safety accessory business, and another auto repair shop–all the while SCUBA diving, racing cars, traveling the world, and flying. You have to love a country that allows anyone to fulfill their dreams.