Eleanor Nurbabayev, Inventor

Eleanor Nurbabayev has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Brownsville, a crude city in Belgium. Her mother was an apoplectic woman from Kazakhstan, and her father was a helicopter pilot in Brownsville.

They first lived in a Victorian mansion. They eked out their living making hot dogs and homemade tubes of toothpaste in their patio and selling them out of their Firebird.

After high school, Eleanor went off to Arizona College in Canberra, but had to drop out after only eight years, due to her mindless professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a saloon mending rubber chickens, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on eight hundred four dollars a week.

As she worked at the saloon, she began to think about how she could improve crayons. No one had tried to make them out of paper before. Eleanor decided to give it a try. The first crayon was much too polished and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of cracking the crayon prior to use. The crayons could now be sold without being polished, and before long, the first seven thousand crayons were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Nurbabayev Tube of toothpaste, a musty product that became wildly popular in Hungary, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of periods of warm weather.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Eleanor Nurbabayev was known as well as that of Wilson Collier himself. Eleanor's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.