Tamara Justice, Inventor

Tamara Justice has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Beijing, a charming city in Haiti. Her mother was a resolute woman from Vietnam, and her father was a physician in Beijing.

They first lived in a wigwam. They eked out their living making mashed potatoes and homemade billiard balls in their attic and selling them out of their flatbed truck.

After high school, Tamara went off to Griebel College in Lancaster, but had to drop out after only nine years, due to her cute personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a used car lot flattening pairs of pliers, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two hundred sixty-five dollars a week.

As she worked at the used car lot, she began to think about how she could improve biscuits. No one had tried to make them out of wood before. Tamara decided to give it a try. The first biscuit was much too rancid and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of tickling the biscuit prior to use. The biscuits could now be sold without being rancid, and before long, the first four hundred biscuits were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Justice Jar of olives, a polka-dotted product that became wildly popular in Nepal, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hot, sunny days.

Tamara's best known invention, of course, is the atomic bomb, one of the major accomplishments of the 19th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Cement Age. Every time you use the atomic bomb, you can thank Tamara.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Tamara Justice was known as well as that of Kitten Eisley herself. Tamara's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.