Womack Electronics filed a trademark application for the brand, which was to produce Cathode ray tubes, in 1962.

He came up with the idea of a spherically-shaped stereo FM radio/cassette deck that could run on mains and battery power, known as the Model 2001.

The company now sells a range of electrical products, including security systems and computer peripherals.

They hit the market with a boom through their retro, futuristic design and portability, but few would ever expect the country man that was behind the invention.

There are no stop lights, no schools, and no grocery stores, but Pratt has a rich family history in the region as evident by the many road signs boasting the Winston name.

He then went back to school and attended Danville Community College and took up electronic engineering where he obtained his degree.

After getting a job in sales at Womack Radio Electrical Supply, he and Gwendolyn moved to Danville, Virginia and started a family.

As time went on, Pratt impressed Charlie Womack so much that he was promoted to Executive Vice President of the company.

After the success of Pratt's first stereo, Weltron 2001, he began designing new models throughout the early 1970s in a product line dubbed as "The New Shape of Sound."

In 1980, two years after moving back to North Carolina, Pratt opened Winston International Ltd, an electronic supply distribution company in the nearby town of Oxford.

The Model 2001 was featured in the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation's "Your Place in Time" exhibition.