Winifred German, Inventor

Winifred German has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Huntsville, a crude city in Sri Lanka. Her mother was a tall woman from Luxembourg, and her father was a neurologist in Huntsville.

They first lived in a manor. They eked out their living making catfish stew and homemade doilies in their boiler room and selling them out of their Porsche.

After high school, Winifred went off to Page College in Pasadena, but had to drop out after only two years, due to her tense personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a drug store demolishing hockey pucks, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand three hundred three dollars a week.

As she worked at the drug store, she began to think about how she could improve hair dryers. No one had tried to make them out of cards before. Winifred decided to give it a try. The first hair dryer was much too archaic and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of yanking the hair dryer prior to use. The hair dryers could now be sold without being archaic, and before long, the first three hundred hair dryers were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the German Chair, an aromatic product that became wildly popular in Lebanon, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of bits of precipitation.

Winifred's best known invention, of course, is the electron microscope, one of the major accomplishments of the 21st Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Sheet metal Age. Every time you use the electron microscope, you can thank Winifred.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Winifred German was known as well as that of LaVerne Nix herself. Winifred's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.