Clarabell Bruno, Inventor

Clarabell Bruno has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Dublin, a greasy city in China. Her mother was an impish woman from Uganda, and her father was a clerk in Dublin.

They first lived in a mansion. They eked out their living making tacos and homemade bird cages in their porch and selling them out of their cab.

After high school, Clarabell went off to Colorado College in Lexington, but had to drop out after only six years, due to her sophisticated personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a novelty shop whacking balls, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one thousand two hundred twenty-one dollars a week.

As she worked at the novelty shop, she began to think about how she could improve cans of beer. No one had tried to make them out of old tire before. Clarabell decided to give it a try. The first can of beer was much too dirty and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of protecting the can of beer prior to use. The cans of beer could now be sold without being dirty, and before long, the first five hundred cans of beer were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Bruno Watering can, a stiff product that became wildly popular in India, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of sandstorms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Clarabell Bruno was known as well as that of Harley Montgomery himself. Clarabell's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.