Edie Green, Inventor

Edie Green has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Mexico City, an unusual city in Russia. Her mother was a smart woman from Slovenia, and her father was a clarinetist in Mexico City.

They first lived in a studio. They eked out their living making potatoes and gravy and homemade skulls in their attic and selling them out of their Honda Element.

After high school, Edie went off to Collier College in San Jose, but had to drop out after only three years, due to her bubbly professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at an electronics store refurbishing feather dusters, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand three hundred ninety-eight dollars a week.

As she worked at the electronics store, she began to think about how she could improve clothespins. No one had tried to make them out of steel before. Edie decided to give it a try. The first clothespin was much too luxurious and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of rocking the clothespin prior to use. The clothespins could now be sold without being luxurious, and before long, the first nine thousand clothespins were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Green Fish, a synthetic product that became wildly popular in Namibia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of rainstorms.

Edie's best known invention, of course, is soap, one of the major accomplishments of the 21st Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Hide Age. Every time you use soap, you can thank Edie.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Edie Green was known as well as that of Kyra Dillman herself. Edie's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.