Marvella Rebensdorf, Inventor

Marvella Rebensdorf has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Vienna, a bronze city in Slovakia. Her mother was a rude woman from Azerbaijan, and her father was a locksmith in Vienna.

They first lived in a teepee. They eked out their living making beans and homemade blank checks in their dining room and selling them out of their Citroen.

After high school, Marvella went off to Dodds College in Shanghai, but had to drop out after only seven years, due to her awkward professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a pharmacy bleaching tennis rackets, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand eight hundred thirteen dollars a week.

As she worked at the pharmacy, she began to think about how she could improve rasps. No one had tried to make them out of seaweed before. Marvella decided to give it a try. The first rasp was much too curved and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of re-evaluating the rasp prior to use. The rasps could now be sold without being curved, and before long, the first two thousand rasps were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Rebensdorf Fountain pen, a stuffed product that became wildly popular in Egypt, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of rainbows.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Marvella Rebensdorf was known as well as that of Bettie Lou Del Genio herself. Marvella's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.