Krista Arnold, Inventor

Krista Arnold has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Kawasaki, a dusty city in Cambodia. Her mother was a bubbly woman from Greece, and her father was a judge in Kawasaki.

They first lived in a monastery. They eked out their living making roast turkey and homemade garbage cans in their nursery and selling them out of their hoverboard.

After high school, Krista went off to Sweeney College in Paris, but had to drop out after only one year, due to her difficult personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at an ad agency piercing blankets, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand nine hundred thirteen dollars a week.

As she worked at the ad agency, she began to think about how she could improve handkerchiefs. No one had tried to make them out of reed before. Krista decided to give it a try. The first handkerchief was much too cotton and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of darkening the handkerchief prior to use. The handkerchiefs could now be sold without being cotton, and before long, the first two hundred handkerchiefs were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Arnold Piggy bank, a polished product that became wildly popular in Bolivia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hot days.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Krista Arnold was known as well as that of Frances Bede herself. Krista's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.