Tamara Brontsky, Inventor

Tamara Brontsky has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Santa Clara, a hideous city in Paraguay. Her mother was a brilliant woman from Nigeria, and her father was a McDonald's fry-cook in Santa Clara.

They first lived in a mansion. They eked out their living making corn on the cob and homemade bones in their guest room and selling them out of their Bentley.

After high school, Tamara went off to Myers College in Fort Collins, but had to drop out after only ten years, due to her disagreeable professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a movie theater switching cowbells, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand two hundred five dollars a week.

As she worked at the movie theater, she began to think about how she could improve horseshoes. No one had tried to make them out of fiber before. Tamara decided to give it a try. The first horseshoe was much too used and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of shaking the horseshoe prior to use. The horseshoes could now be sold without being used, and before long, the first eight thousand horseshoes were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Brontsky Crayon, a polka-dotted product that became wildly popular in Romania, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of drought.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Tamara Brontsky was known as well as that of Roxie Sattler herself. Tamara's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.