George Washington Carver was inspired to grow and produce peanuts. Starting out as a farmhand, Carver later attended Tuskegee University and revolutionized the southern agricultural economy by thinking up more than two hundred products that could be derived from the peanut and more than one hundred different products that could be derived from the sweet potato. These products included soap, ink, plastics, axle grease, flour, molasses, vinegar, and rubber, just to name a few.6
