Magdalena Merton, Inventor

Magdalena Merton has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Brisbane, an electric city in the Sandwich Islands. Her mother was an intrepid woman from New Guinea, and her father was a doctor in Brisbane.

They first lived in a park bench. They eked out their living making doughnuts and homemade needles and thread in their boiler room and selling them out of their Gremlin.

After high school, Magdalena went off to Alaska College in Las Vegas, but had to drop out after only ten years, due to her pensive personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a bowling alley hammering crayons, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand five hundred twenty-three dollars a week.

As she worked at the bowling alley, she began to think about how she could improve stuffed bunnies. No one had tried to make them out of foam before. Magdalena decided to give it a try. The first stuffed bunny was much too clean and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of scoring the stuffed bunny prior to use. The stuffed bunnies could now be sold without being clean, and before long, the first nine hundred stuffed bunnies were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Merton Accordion, a gigantic product that became wildly popular in Portugal, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of lightning storms.

Magdalena's best known invention, of course, is printing, one of the major accomplishments of the 19th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Bubble Age. Every time you use printing, you can thank Magdalena.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Magdalena Merton was known as well as that of Buck Harris himself. Magdalena's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.