Gyro Gearloose
 

    Maybe the most famous amongst Disney inventors...
He works in a little wooden house in South Duckburg, Calisota, USA. His biggest customer is scrooge McDuck. He was created by Carl Barks in the story "Gladstone's Terrible Secret" ("Walt Disney's Comics & Stories" #140, May 1952). Then, we'll have to wait a bit until he gets his actual appearance. He tends to be a little fat in his first appearances (it is said that Barks used the study he made for the character Gus Goose in the cartoon "Donald's Cousin Gus" from 1939, to help him when he created Gyro). He created tons of inventions (sometimes useful, sometimes stupid, but most of the time with flaws! I will probably soon build a page about all his inventions), but the greatest one is his first invention : his Little Helper (also called Little Bulb).
 
 





He was born in North Duckburg, and it seems that he likes to learn and repair and invent things very early, in Claude Marin's "Disney Babies", but also in some other stories.
He is from a family of inventors : first, the first known member of his family, his nephew Newton Gearloose (seems that they like nephews, in Disney comics!), a kind of Chicken version of Goofy's intelligent nephew Gilbert, who is also a member of the Junior Woodchucks, is a genius too. It has happened a lot of times that we meet members of his family in comics stories (uncles, ancestors,...[see my Duck Family Tree]) and they always are inventors, scientists, ...

His father, Fulton Gearloose, (one of the first Junior Woodchucks!) was himself a repairman and invented the "Junior Woodchucks Merit Badge". His grandfather, Ratchet Gearloose, invented water cleansing pills and worked to find safer energy sources...
In his stories, Barks used a lot of other wacky scientists (he even used Ludwig Von Drake, once), here is a page in which I tried to put them all...

In France, "Géo Trouvetou" (the French name for Gyro Gearloose) is a real reference, when we speak about inventors. (It is a little bit the same for "Castors Juniors" [Junior Woodchucks] )

see Rich Bellacera's pages about Gyro and Newton Gearloose ;
  see Per Starbäck's pages about Gyro and Newton Gearloose ;
  see Sigvald Grøsfjeld jr.'s pages about Gyro, Fulton and Ratchet Gearloose.
 
 

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