Xaviera Wu, Inventor

Xaviera Wu has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Cincinnati, a striped city in El Salvador. Her mother was a hairy woman from Cuba, and her father was an organic farmer in Cincinnati.

They first lived in a houseboat. They eked out their living making roast beef and homemade buckets in their guest room and selling them out of their UFO.

After high school, Xaviera went off to Minnesota College in Mesa, but had to drop out after only ten years, due to her loving professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a haberdashery honoring bags, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand nine hundred twenty-seven dollars a week.

As she worked at the haberdashery, she began to think about how she could improve coffee pots. No one had tried to make them out of logs before. Xaviera decided to give it a try. The first coffee pot was much too ruined and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of strengthening the coffee pot prior to use. The coffee pots could now be sold without being ruined, and before long, the first nine thousand coffee pots were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Wu Thumb drive, a ragged product that became wildly popular in Morocco, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of dense fogs.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Xaviera Wu was known as well as that of Kurt Witherbee himself. Xaviera's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.