Nora Mars, Inventor

Nora Mars has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in New Delhi, a queer city in Bermuda. Her mother was a dowdy woman from Bangladesh, and her father was a typing teacher in New Delhi.

They first lived in a Cape Cod. They eked out their living making corn on the cob and homemade hubcaps in their servant's quarters and selling them out of their Suburu Outback.

After high school, Nora went off to Nevada College in Garland, but had to drop out after only one year, due to her fearless personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a bank fortifying coconuts, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand seven hundred fifty-two dollars a week.

As she worked at the bank, she began to think about how she could improve amulets. No one had tried to make them out of reed before. Nora decided to give it a try. The first amulet was much too stuffed and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of overlooking the amulet prior to use. The amulets could now be sold without being stuffed, and before long, the first nine hundred amulets were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Mars Cookie, a ruined product that became wildly popular in Bermuda, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of downpours.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Nora Mars was known as well as that of Boots Thurman himself. Nora's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.