Anna Cosak, Inventor

Anna Cosak has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Berlin, a plain city in Greece. Her mother was a nonchalant woman from Rwanda, and her father was a neurologist in Berlin.

They first lived in an apartment. They eked out their living making mushroom quiche and homemade spiders in their oubliette and selling them out of their Volkswagen Passat.

After high school, Anna went off to Arkansas College in Wilmington, but had to drop out after only five years, due to her yappy personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a dry cleaner lengthening pictures, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand two hundred seven dollars a week.

As she worked at the dry cleaner, she began to think about how she could improve piggy banks. No one had tried to make them out of chicken wire before. Anna decided to give it a try. The first piggy bank was much too ridged and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of tossing the piggy bank prior to use. The piggy banks could now be sold without being ridged, and before long, the first seven hundred piggy banks were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Cosak Artificial flower, a gruesome product that became wildly popular in Venezuela, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of lightning storms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Anna Cosak was known as well as that of Charlie Sartre himself. Anna's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.