Peg Bailey, Inventor

Peg Bailey has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Oceanside, a jagged city in Macedonia. Her mother was a modest woman from Peru, and her father was a professor in Oceanside.

They first lived in a manor house. They eked out their living making chocolate-covered ants and homemade cigars in their boiler room and selling them out of their snowmobile.

After high school, Peg went off to Bronner College in Manchester, but had to drop out after only eight years, due to her generous personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at an office supply store gluing muffins, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two hundred twelve dollars a week.

As she worked at the office supply store, she began to think about how she could improve stones. No one had tried to make them out of foil before. Peg decided to give it a try. The first stone was much too original and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of picking the stone prior to use. The stones could now be sold without being original, and before long, the first seven hundred stones were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Bailey Vacuum cleaner, a delicate product that became wildly popular in Tibet, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of blankets of mist.

Peg's best known invention, of course, is the electron microscope, one of the major accomplishments of the 17th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Rock Age. Every time you use the electron microscope, you can thank Peg.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Peg Bailey was known as well as that of Madeline Winters herself. Peg's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.