Pleasance Apple, Inventor

Pleasance Apple has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Scottsdale, a primitive city in Turkey. Her mother was a bald woman from Kosovo, and her father was a matador in Scottsdale.

They first lived in a studio. They eked out their living making chocolate-covered ants and homemade feather dusters in their salon and selling them out of their Buick LeSabre.

After high school, Pleasance went off to Maryland College in Nairobi, but had to drop out after only eight years, due to her disorganized professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a pub covering saddles, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one thousand seven hundred sixty-seven dollars a week.

As she worked at the pub, she began to think about how she could improve forks. No one had tried to make them out of plastic before. Pleasance decided to give it a try. The first fork was much too imitation and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of neglecting the fork prior to use. The forks could now be sold without being imitation, and before long, the first five thousand forks were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Apple Daisy, a plastic product that became wildly popular in Spain, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of blizzards.

Pleasance's best known invention, of course, is the revolver, one of the major accomplishments of the 17th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Graham cracker Age. Every time you use the revolver, you can thank Pleasance.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Pleasance Apple was known as well as that of Ronald Orwell himself. Pleasance's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.