Stormy Ott, Inventor

Stormy Ott has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Trenton, an ancient city in Bahrain. Her mother was a choleric woman from Botswana, and her father was a test pilot in Trenton.

They first lived in a teepee. They eked out their living making pie a la mode and homemade rubber chickens in their den and selling them out of their Dodge Ram.

After high school, Stormy went off to Washington College in Little Big Horn, but had to drop out after only one year, due to her phlegmatic professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a pub opening mortarboards, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars a week.

As she worked at the pub, she began to think about how she could improve tubes of glue. No one had tried to make them out of precious gem before. Stormy decided to give it a try. The first tube of glue was much too papery and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of slamming the tube of glue prior to use. The tubes of glue could now be sold without being papery, and before long, the first nine thousand tubes of glue were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Ott Kindle, a flexible product that became wildly popular in Honduras, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of dust storms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Stormy Ott was known as well as that of Alexei Grady himself. Stormy's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.