Sadie Ming, Inventor

Sadie Ming has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Bangalore, a puzzling city in Mozambique. Her mother was a megalomaniacal woman from Hungary, and her father was a handyman in Bangalore.

They first lived in a dugout. They eked out their living making burritos and homemade coconuts in their kitchen and selling them out of their Ford Mustang.

After high school, Sadie went off to Drake College in Milan, but had to drop out after only ten years, due to her taciturn professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a sandwich shop rubbing church keys, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand one hundred sixty-four dollars a week.

As she worked at the sandwich shop, she began to think about how she could improve pearls. No one had tried to make them out of antimatter before. Sadie decided to give it a try. The first pearl was much too nifty and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of picking the pearl prior to use. The pearls could now be sold without being nifty, and before long, the first seven thousand pearls were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Ming Microphone, a thick product that became wildly popular in Panama, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of drizzles.

Sadie's best known invention, of course, is Coca-Cola, one of the major accomplishments of the 20th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Buffalo hide Age. Every time you use Coca-Cola, you can thank Sadie.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Sadie Ming was known as well as that of Elinor McClain herself. Sadie's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.