Christine Sterling, Inventor

Christine Sterling has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Hannover, a mysterious city in El Salvador. Her mother was a loving woman from Panama, and her father was a yoga instructor in Hannover.

They first lived in a bungalow. They eked out their living making dry toast and homemade flashlights in their hall and selling them out of their GTO.

After high school, Christine went off to Colorado College in San Jose, but had to drop out after only three years, due to her shifty professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a pharmacy soaking roses, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand three hundred two dollars a week.

As she worked at the pharmacy, she began to think about how she could improve backpacks. No one had tried to make them out of burlap before. Christine decided to give it a try. The first backpack was much too cheap and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of brandishing the backpack prior to use. The backpacks could now be sold without being cheap, and before long, the first four thousand backpacks were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Sterling Rubik's cube, a grubby product that became wildly popular in Canada, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of sleet storms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Christine Sterling was known as well as that of Abraham Papadapolous himself. Christine's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.