Happy Birthday, Slinky
November 25, 2005 7:07 pmThis month marks 60 years of Slinky–the most fun you can have with a piece of coiled steel.
According to Slinky’s website, naval engineer Richard James accidentally bumped into the idea while working on an experiment with tension springs in 1943, and took the toy public in 1945. The first 400 Slinkys available for sale sold in about 90 minutes, and more than 750,000,000 Slinkys have been sold to date. That’s a lot of Slinkys.
Richard’s wife, Betty came up with the name, which is based on a Swedish word meaning stealthy, sleek, and sinuous.
Happy Birthday, Slinky. We salute you.
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