Jackie Wu, Inventor

Jackie Wu has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Corpus Christi, a stuffed city in Lebanon. Her mother was a zany woman from Israel, and her father was a scam artist in Corpus Christi.

They first lived in a chalet. They eked out their living making burritos and homemade air compressors in their servant's quarters and selling them out of their Buick Le Sabre.

After high school, Jackie went off to Woods College in Hannover, but had to drop out after only seven years, due to her paranoid personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at an office supply store ignoring pumpkins, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand eight hundred ninety-three dollars a week.

As she worked at the office supply store, she began to think about how she could improve crutches. No one had tried to make them out of bamboo before. Jackie decided to give it a try. The first crutch was much too ordinary and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of throwing the crutch prior to use. The crutches could now be sold without being ordinary, and before long, the first four hundred crutches were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Wu Package, an imported product that became wildly popular in Estonia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hurricanes.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Jackie Wu was known as well as that of Alicia Del Genio herself. Jackie's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.