Ginger Covington, Inventor

Ginger Covington has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Kampala, a fuzzy city in Angola. Her mother was a sloppy woman from Japan, and her father was a doctor in Kampala.

They first lived in a brownstone. They eked out their living making Cheerios and homemade staplers in their study and selling them out of their Chevy Volt.

After high school, Ginger went off to Virginia College in Muskogee, but had to drop out after only two years, due to her blubbery personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at an electronics store photographing dead wolves, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand six hundred thirty-five dollars a week.

As she worked at the electronics store, she began to think about how she could improve suitcases. No one had tried to make them out of pipe cleaner before. Ginger decided to give it a try. The first suitcase was much too hand-carved and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of maintaining the suitcase prior to use. The suitcases could now be sold without being hand-carved, and before long, the first four hundred suitcases were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Covington Tissue, a frilly product that became wildly popular in Pakistan, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hot, sunny days.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Ginger Covington was known as well as that of Mel Caldwell himself. Ginger's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.