Mistakes That Worked by Charlotte Foltz Jones

Author:Charlotte Foltz Jones [Jones, Charlotte]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2009-02-18T00:00:00+00:00

Slinky

In 1943, during World War II, an engineer in the United States Navy was on a new ship’s trial run. As he worked, a torsion spring suddenly fell to the floor. The spring flip-flopped as the ingenious man watched.

The naval engineer’s name was Richard James, and when he returned home, he remembered the spring and the interesting way it flip-flopped. James and his wife Betty perfected a long steel ribbon tightly coiled into a spiral. They began production in 1945.

From that spring’s accidental fall came a toy Americans have enjoyed for over forty years: the Slinky.

The nonelectrical, no-battery-required, nonvideo toy has fascinated three generations of children and adults alike. According to one estimate more than two million Slinkys have been sold and the only change in the original design has been to crimp the ends as a safety measure.

Betty James is now the company president and the Slinky is still hopping, skipping, jumping, and bouncing across floors and down stairs all over America.

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