Ana McIntire, Inventor

Ana McIntire has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Bismark, a disgusting city in Kuwait. Her mother was a disorganized woman from Venezuela, and her father was a veterinarian in Bismark.

They first lived in a teepee. They eked out their living making chocolate-covered ants and homemade hand puppets in their corridor and selling them out of their school bus.

After high school, Ana went off to Henry College in Corpus Christi, but had to drop out after only six years, due to her gregarious professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a gym disposing of cans of soup, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand nine hundred seventy-one dollars a week.

As she worked at the gym, she began to think about how she could improve pain pills. No one had tried to make them out of beeswax before. Ana decided to give it a try. The first pain pill was much too cheap and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of walloping the pain pill prior to use. The pain pills could now be sold without being cheap, and before long, the first six thousand pain pills were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the McIntire Bird bath, a torn product that became wildly popular in Mexico, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of drought.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Ana McIntire was known as well as that of Irma Backus herself. Ana's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.