Dagmar Borkowski, Inventor

Dagmar Borkowski has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Honolulu, a bulky city in Egypt. Her mother was a wary woman from South Sudan, and her father was an embalmer in Honolulu.

They first lived in a duplex. They eked out their living making cotton candy and homemade candy bars in their guest room and selling them out of their handcart.

After high school, Dagmar went off to Alabama College in Hollywood, but had to drop out after only nine years, due to her tall personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a pastry shop rebuilding carrots, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand one hundred twenty-three dollars a week.

As she worked at the pastry shop, she began to think about how she could improve purses. No one had tried to make them out of cellophane before. Dagmar decided to give it a try. The first purse was much too autographed and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of observing the purse prior to use. The purses could now be sold without being autographed, and before long, the first three hundred purses were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Borkowski Lead pipe, a ruined product that became wildly popular in France, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of blankets of mist.

Dagmar's best known invention, of course, is the paper clip, one of the major accomplishments of the 21st Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Flax Age. Every time you use the paper clip, you can thank Dagmar.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Dagmar Borkowski was known as well as that of Babyface Fields himself. Dagmar's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.