Esmeralda Ferber, Inventor

Esmeralda Ferber has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Ontario, an odd city in Italy. Her mother was a dependable woman from Mozambique, and her father was an author in Ontario.

They first lived in a nunnery. They eked out their living making chopped liver and homemade tablet computers in their patio and selling them out of their Infiniti.

After high school, Esmeralda went off to Nevada College in El Paso, but had to drop out after only six years, due to her humble professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a bookstore baking hip flasks, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two hundred eleven dollars a week.

As she worked at the bookstore, she began to think about how she could improve paintbrushes. No one had tried to make them out of toothpick before. Esmeralda decided to give it a try. The first paintbrush was much too miniature and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of silencing the paintbrush prior to use. The paintbrushes could now be sold without being miniature, and before long, the first four thousand paintbrushes were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Ferber Stick, a hideous product that became wildly popular in Armenia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of sleet storms.

Esmeralda's best known invention, of course, is the revolver, one of the major accomplishments of the 21st Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Tile Age. Every time you use the revolver, you can thank Esmeralda.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Esmeralda Ferber was known as well as that of Eubie Sugarbaker himself. Esmeralda's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.