Hannah Matthews, Inventor

Hannah Matthews has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Phoenix, a mysterious city in Uruguay. Her mother was an urbane woman from Estonia, and her father was a proofreader in Phoenix.

They first lived in a parsonage. They eked out their living making cotton candy and homemade clarinets in their boiler room and selling them out of their covered wagon.

After high school, Hannah went off to Şerban College in Hayward, but had to drop out after only six years, due to her miniscule professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a video arcade darkening pizzas, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand eight hundred eighty-nine dollars a week.

As she worked at the video arcade, she began to think about how she could improve remote controls. No one had tried to make them out of lumber before. Hannah decided to give it a try. The first remote control was much too broken and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of handling the remote control prior to use. The remote controls could now be sold without being broken, and before long, the first eight thousand remote controls were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Matthews Frisbee, a fresh product that became wildly popular in South Africa, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of blizzards.

Hannah's best known invention, of course, is Coca-Cola, one of the major accomplishments of the 21st Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Tin Age. Every time you use Coca-Cola, you can thank Hannah.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Hannah Matthews was known as well as that of Ursula Holloman herself. Hannah's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.