Rosa Swoopes, Inventor

Rosa Swoopes has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Dayton, a speckled city in Macedonia. Her mother was a rapacious woman from Russia, and her father was an astrologer in Dayton.

They first lived in a homeless shelter. They eked out their living making cinnamon toast and homemade thumb drives in their salon and selling them out of their forklift.

After high school, Rosa went off to Barducci College in Clodville, but had to drop out after only six years, due to her angry professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a sandwich shop pulverizing bowling balls, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand fifty-nine dollars a week.

As she worked at the sandwich shop, she began to think about how she could improve tops. No one had tried to make them out of cardboard before. Rosa decided to give it a try. The first top was much too excellent and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of covering the top prior to use. The tops could now be sold without being excellent, and before long, the first two thousand tops were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Swoopes Magnet, a gaudy product that became wildly popular in Latvia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hot days.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Rosa Swoopes was known as well as that of Camella Hayes herself. Rosa's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.