Sheryl Craig, Inventor

Sheryl Craig has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Elk Grove, a fuzzy city in Azerbaijan. Her mother was an obese woman from Hungary, and her father was a communist in Elk Grove.

They first lived in a cottage. They eked out their living making catfish stew and homemade rocks in their pantry and selling them out of their Volkswagon Golf.

After high school, Sheryl went off to Nebraska College in San Diego, but had to drop out after only one year, due to her perky personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at an electronics store brushing stones, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand twenty-six dollars a week.

As she worked at the electronics store, she began to think about how she could improve dolls. No one had tried to make them out of wood before. Sheryl decided to give it a try. The first doll was much too big and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of puncturing the doll prior to use. The dolls could now be sold without being big, and before long, the first four hundred dolls were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Craig Pop bottle, a sleek product that became wildly popular in New Zealand, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of drought.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Sheryl Craig was known as well as that of Steven Nabokov himself. Sheryl's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.