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 Pott by the craftsman Rowland Emett, and have been on display at Mid-America Science Museum for many years. In the movie, Caractacus' wife is revealed to have died, leaving him as guardian of their two children Jeremy and Jemimah, but not in poverty. The daily routine is that while Caractacus invents things to sell for his family's sustenance, Jeremy and Jemimah either go to school or play in a garage owned by a neighbour, Mr. Coggins. One day the children discover and grow fond of a decrepit race car that caught fire and exploded in a road race when it was