Christine McAllister, Inventor

Christine McAllister has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Jacksonville, a chic city in Pakistan. Her mother was a taciturn woman from Kenya, and her father was a librarian in Jacksonville.

They first lived in a condominium. They eked out their living making lamb curry and homemade Lego sets in their linen closet and selling them out of their donkey cart.

After high school, Christine went off to Sledge College in Tulsa, but had to drop out after only six years, due to her dependable professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a perfumery weighing cream puffs, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand one hundred twenty-four dollars a week.

As she worked at the perfumery, she began to think about how she could improve cigars. No one had tried to make them out of taffy before. Christine decided to give it a try. The first cigar was much too musty and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of killing the cigar prior to use. The cigars could now be sold without being musty, and before long, the first three thousand cigars were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the McAllister Hat, a magnificent product that became wildly popular in Singapore, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of blizzards.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Christine McAllister was known as well as that of Azalea Bransen herself. Christine's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.