Natalie Nurbabayev, Inventor

Natalie Nurbabayev has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Taiwan, a woven city in Austria. Her mother was an urbane woman from Guatemala, and her father was a rocket scientist in Taiwan.

They first lived in a Spanish colonial. They eked out their living making macaroni and homemade bedpans in their workshop and selling them out of their Trans Am.

After high school, Natalie went off to Nevada College in Des Moines, but had to drop out after only one year, due to her adorable professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a gift shop scrubbing baskets, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one thousand four hundred eighty-six dollars a week.

As she worked at the gift shop, she began to think about how she could improve crystal balls. No one had tried to make them out of taffeta before. Natalie decided to give it a try. The first crystal ball was much too wooden and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of excluding the crystal ball prior to use. The crystal balls could now be sold without being wooden, and before long, the first eight thousand crystal balls were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Nurbabayev Bouquet, a damaged product that became wildly popular in Iraq, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hurricanes.

Natalie's best known invention, of course, is holography, one of the major accomplishments of the 18th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Gold Age. Every time you use holography, you can thank Natalie.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Natalie Nurbabayev was known as well as that of Stephen Hart himself. Natalie's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.