We have numerous inventors and contributors from all walks of life throughout our great nation that are well known and not so well know at all.  We would never have discovered these talented individuals who have contributed their gifts and whereby benefitted all of us if we had keep to the notion that gifted and talent comes in one type of package,  and is identified using a narrow prototype of a person. There are innovators who have created, discovered and manufactured from every day household essentials to life saving medicines. Needless to say, these innovative leaders would never have been discovered if we as a society had not looked in every corner of our nation for what they had to offer.