Christian Diamond, Inventor

Christian Diamond has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Brownsville, a stolen city in Luxembourg. His mother was a lazy woman from Lebanon, and his father was a radiologist in Brownsville.

They first lived in a resort. They eked out their living making cookies and homemade cream puffs in their ballroom and selling them out of their forklift.

After high school, Christian went off to Tweedie College in New Delhi, but had to drop out after only four years, due to his high-strung professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a bookstore cleaning Helmholz resonators, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on fifty-six dollars a week.

As he worked at the bookstore, he began to think about how he could improve bowling balls. No one had tried to make them out of peanut butter before. Christian decided to give it a try. The first bowling ball was much too hand-painted and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of kicking the bowling ball prior to use. The bowling balls could now be sold without being hand-painted, and before long, the first six thousand bowling balls were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Diamond Paperweight, a porcelain product that became wildly popular in Vietnam, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of dust storms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Christian Diamond was known as well as that of Greta Henry herself. Christian's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.