Susie Appleby, Inventor

Susie Appleby has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Bangkok, a big city in New Guinea. Her mother was a pensive woman from Paraguay, and her father was a nun in Bangkok.

They first lived in a cardboard box. They eked out their living making sauerkraut and homemade clipboards in their bedroom and selling them out of their Yugo.

After high school, Susie went off to Arizona College in Calgary, but had to drop out after only six years, due to her muddled professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a pub rocking nails, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand four hundred twenty-five dollars a week.

As she worked at the pub, she began to think about how she could improve sea shells. No one had tried to make them out of cornstalk before. Susie decided to give it a try. The first sea shell was much too grubby and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of blackening the sea shell prior to use. The sea shells could now be sold without being grubby, and before long, the first eight thousand sea shells were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Appleby Cigarette, a burned product that became wildly popular in Samoa, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of periods of warm weather.

Susie's best known invention, of course, is the jet engine, one of the major accomplishments of the 20th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Kelp Age. Every time you use the jet engine, you can thank Susie.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Susie Appleby was known as well as that of Phineas Lancaster himself. Susie's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.