Absent-minded professor Multo, one of the characters in the children's series "The Zula Patrol", is another example of an absent-minded professor. Professor Kokintz in "The Mouse That Roared" by Leonard Wibberley is an example from literature. Professor Branestawm, created in the 1930s by Norman Hunter, is an earlier example of the archetype, and Jacques Paganel from the Jules Verne's 1867 novel "In Search of the Castaways" is probably the codifier of the archetype in the modern literature. Professor Caractacus Potts in the story of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" qualifies as an absent-minded inventor. Comic strip examples include Professor Calculus in "The Adventures
Caractacus (horse) Adams as his jockey. He did not finish in the top four, and the race was ultimately won by Mr. Fisher's colt Lord Burleigh. His next engagement was on 28 August in three quarters of a mile Stratton Audley Nursery Handicap in Oxford. He finished fifth out of a field of eight horses behind Turn of Luck while carrying 110 pounds, and he was jockeyed by a teenage stable boy named John Parsons. Parsons again rode Caractacus in the Skeffington Nursery Handicap where, carrying 107 pounds, he was third behind Captain Christie's My Partner. Caractacus' first start as a three-year-old