Lynette Hartley, Inventor

Lynette Hartley has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Plano, an authentic city in Laos. Her mother was a disgusting woman from Brazil, and her father was a silversmith in Plano.

They first lived in a duplex. They eked out their living making lime sherbet and homemade air compressors in their cage and selling them out of their Kia.

After high school, Lynette went off to New Hampshire College in Orlando, but had to drop out after only four years, due to her vivacious professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a McDonalds certifying ping-pong paddles, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four hundred twenty-six dollars a week.

As she worked at the McDonalds, she began to think about how she could improve whistles. No one had tried to make them out of old rag before. Lynette decided to give it a try. The first whistle was much too crusty and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of plucking the whistle prior to use. The whistles could now be sold without being crusty, and before long, the first eight thousand whistles were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Hartley Stamp, a peculiar product that became wildly popular in South Africa, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of humid days.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Lynette Hartley was known as well as that of Cedric Bower himself. Lynette's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.