To provide the means by which resuscitation techniques could be demonstrated and taught, Åsmund Laerdal, whose plastic-toy company manufactured a popular doll named Anne, created a mannequin to facilitate CPR education, calling it “Resusci Anne.” He modeled the mannequin’s face after the famous visage of an unnamed girl who drowned in the Seine river (the story that his daughter drowned and served as the inspiration for Anne is apocryphal)