Rose Lewis, Inventor

Rose Lewis has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Garden Grove, a nifty city in Angola. Her mother was a dreadful woman from New Zealand, and her father was a gunsmith in Garden Grove.

They first lived in a convent. They eked out their living making cabbage rolls and homemade joints in their nursery and selling them out of their Volvo.

After high school, Rose went off to Danielson College in Bucharest, but had to drop out after only one year, due to her taciturn professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a shoe shine booth gluing peanuts, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one thousand eight hundred twenty-four dollars a week.

As she worked at the shoe shine booth, she began to think about how she could improve abacuses. No one had tried to make them out of limestone before. Rose decided to give it a try. The first abacus was much too mechanical and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of shredding the abacus prior to use. The abacuses could now be sold without being mechanical, and before long, the first five thousand abacuses were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Lewis Pumpkin, a funny product that became wildly popular in Kazakhstan, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of blankets of mist.

Rose's best known invention, of course, is the barometer, one of the major accomplishments of the 17th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Rubber Age. Every time you use the barometer, you can thank Rose.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Rose Lewis was known as well as that of Tori Gare herself. Rose's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.