Ruby Vaniman, Inventor

Ruby Vaniman has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Tegucigalpa, a rigid city in China. Her mother was a cunning woman from Hungary, and her father was a computer programmer in Tegucigalpa.

They first lived in a cardboard box. They eked out their living making borscht and homemade dictionaries in their bedroom and selling them out of their Ferrari.

After high school, Ruby went off to Trott College in Santa Rosa, but had to drop out after only eight years, due to her zany professors.

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

As she worked at the bakery, she began to think about how she could improve clams. No one had tried to make them out of copper before. Ruby decided to give it a try. The first clam was much too ordinary and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of puncturing the clam prior to use. The clams could now be sold without being ordinary, and before long, the first eight thousand clams were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Vaniman Thumb drive, a valuable product that became wildly popular in Senegal, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of dense fogs.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Ruby Vaniman was known as well as that of Judy Nixon herself. Ruby's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.