Beulah Al-Ghareeb, Inventor

Beulah Al-Ghareeb has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Mobile, an expensive city in the Congo. Her mother was a rapacious woman from the Congo, and her father was a rabbi in Mobile.

They first lived in a wigwam. They eked out their living making roast Cornish game hen and homemade stopwatches in their solarium and selling them out of their Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow.

After high school, Beulah went off to Valentine College in Memphis, but had to drop out after only eight years, due to her excitable professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a souvenir shop praising pain pills, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two hundred seventy-nine dollars a week.

As she worked at the souvenir shop, she began to think about how she could improve egg shells. No one had tried to make them out of granite before. Beulah decided to give it a try. The first egg shell was much too heavy and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of tweaking the egg shell prior to use. The egg shells could now be sold without being heavy, and before long, the first six thousand egg shells were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Al-Ghareeb Dog collar, a smooth product that became wildly popular in Afghanistan, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of tornadoes.

Beulah's best known invention, of course, is the piano, one of the major accomplishments of the 19th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Reed Age. Every time you use the piano, you can thank Beulah.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Beulah Al-Ghareeb was known as well as that of Carla Rogers herself. Beulah's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.