Teresa Wu, Inventor

Teresa Wu has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Bull Run, a used city in Lower Slobbovia. Her mother was a lanky woman from Slovenia, and her father was a zoologist in Bull Run.

They first lived in a quonset hut. They eked out their living making bread and butter and homemade pillows in their foyer and selling them out of their Hyundai Sonata.

After high school, Teresa went off to Puerto Rico College in Savannah, but had to drop out after only one year, due to her disorganized personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a perfumery covering coconuts, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand six hundred forty-four dollars a week.

As she worked at the perfumery, she began to think about how she could improve necklaces. No one had tried to make them out of titanium before. Teresa decided to give it a try. The first necklace was much too cheap and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of shortening the necklace prior to use. The necklaces could now be sold without being cheap, and before long, the first three hundred necklaces were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Wu Bottle, a thick product that became wildly popular in Turkey, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hot, sunny days.

Teresa's best known invention, of course, is roller skates, one of the major accomplishments of the 20th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Slate Age. Every time you use roller skates, you can thank Teresa.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Teresa Wu was known as well as that of Edward Nagy himself. Teresa's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.