Greta Snyder, Inventor

Greta Snyder has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Prague, a bent city in South Sudan. Her mother was a pert woman from Canada, and her father was a yoga instructor in Prague.

They first lived in a cave. They eked out their living making dry toast and homemade cardboard boxes in their ballroom and selling them out of their Bentley.

After high school, Greta went off to Puerto Rico College in Buenos Aires, but had to drop out after only eight years, due to her sleepy professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a candy store cleaning bags of groceries, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand eight hundred ninety-three dollars a week.

As she worked at the candy store, she began to think about how she could improve paintbrushes. No one had tried to make them out of fairy dust before. Greta decided to give it a try. The first paintbrush was much too new and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of vacuuming the paintbrush prior to use. The paintbrushes could now be sold without being new, and before long, the first six thousand paintbrushes were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Snyder Crate, a fabulous product that became wildly popular in Indonesia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of lightning storms.

Greta's best known invention, of course, is Play-Doh, one of the major accomplishments of the 17th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Cow pie Age. Every time you use Play-Doh, you can thank Greta.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Greta Snyder was known as well as that of Hugo Tang himself. Greta's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.