Crystal Wheeler, Inventor

Crystal Wheeler has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Elk Grove, a dusty city in South Africa. Her mother was a slimy woman from Estonia, and her father was a nightingale rancher in Elk Grove.

They first lived in a farmhouse. They eked out their living making applesauce and homemade boomerangs in their pantry and selling them out of their police car.

After high school, Crystal went off to Sloan College in Rome, but had to drop out after only seven years, due to her timid personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a photography studio certifying antennas, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand eight hundred forty-two dollars a week.

As she worked at the photography studio, she began to think about how she could improve kites. No one had tried to make them out of chalk before. Crystal decided to give it a try. The first kite was much too nice and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of rocking the kite prior to use. The kites could now be sold without being nice, and before long, the first four hundred kites were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Wheeler Can of shaving cream, a fabulous product that became wildly popular in Luxembourg, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of sandstorms.

Crystal's best known invention, of course, is Saran Wrap, one of the major accomplishments of the 18th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Egg shell Age. Every time you use Saran Wrap, you can thank Crystal.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Crystal Wheeler was known as well as that of Madison Grover herself. Crystal's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.