Ava Van Bloom, Inventor

Ava Van Bloom has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Berlin, a woven city in Romania. Her mother was a modest woman from Bolivia, and her father was an usher in Berlin.

They first lived in a quonset hut. They eked out their living making dirty rice and homemade teacups in their foyer and selling them out of their dump truck.

After high school, Ava went off to Tate College in Wilmington, but had to drop out after only ten years, due to her paranoid personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a grocery store grasping rolls of duct tape, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand four hundred thirteen dollars a week.

As she worked at the grocery store, she began to think about how she could improve pacifiers. No one had tried to make them out of ribbons before. Ava decided to give it a try. The first pacifier was much too slimy and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of beating the pacifier prior to use. The pacifiers could now be sold without being slimy, and before long, the first four hundred pacifiers were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Van Bloom Flyswatter, an automatic product that became wildly popular in The Philippines, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of floods.

Ava's best known invention, of course, is the aerosol can, one of the major accomplishments of the 18th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Cards Age. Every time you use the aerosol can, you can thank Ava.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Ava Van Bloom was known as well as that of Claudia Silva herself. Ava's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.