Patricia Billings Inventions Information

Patricia Billings (b. 1926) is a sculptor, inventor and businesswoman. She invented Geobond, the world's first useful replacement for asbestos.

Patricia Billings was born in 1926 in Clinton City, Missouri to a farmer and his wife. She married a salesman and began working as a medical technologist and studying fungal and bacterial diseases at Kansas City Junior College. She left that job in 1947 when she and the salesman divorced.

In 1956 she began studying art at Amarillo College. She enjoyed plaster of Paris sculptures. In 1964 she opened a store in Kansas City where she sold many of her sculptures. She sculpted a swan and after she finished, it collapsed and broke into pieces. She then decided to make a substance that could have saved her sculpture.

Eight years later she came up with Geobond. She sent a 10-inch statue to a scientist who recognized the substance's worth.

She turned into a product called Geobond. It resists shock, fire and is non-toxic. Geobond was patented in 1997. The resulting company, Geobond International, remains an intimate 13 employee company in Kansas City, Missouri.

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