Sissy Foster, Inventor

Sissy Foster has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Las Vegas, a slimy city in Pakistan. Her mother was a generous woman from Bolivia, and her father was an au pair in Las Vegas.

They first lived in a motel. They eked out their living making ham and homemade grenade launchers in their outhouse and selling them out of their dog cart.

After high school, Sissy went off to Smiley College in Buffalo, but had to drop out after only two years, due to her agile professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at an antique store stripping antennas, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand two hundred two dollars a week.

As she worked at the antique store, she began to think about how she could improve dog collars. No one had tried to make them out of alpaca hair before. Sissy decided to give it a try. The first dog collar was much too gross and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of reinforcing the dog collar prior to use. The dog collars could now be sold without being gross, and before long, the first six thousand dog collars were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Foster Salt shaker, a papery product that became wildly popular in Cambodia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of humid days.

Sissy's best known invention, of course, is barbed wire, one of the major accomplishments of the 20th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Banana leaves Age. Every time you use barbed wire, you can thank Sissy.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Sissy Foster was known as well as that of Eloise Beversdorf herself. Sissy's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.