And makes a slinkity sound? Unless you have somehow lived an existence free of a certain metal coil toy, you probably can figure out that this refers to the Slinky. The classic toy -- the one that ...

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Figures of a Slinky from the 1947 patent awarded to James Industries. James had little trouble getting toy stores to stock their shelves with Slinkys. But there ...

Betty James, who named the toy her husband invented -- the Slinky -- and rebuilt the toy company he abandoned, making the springy plaything a pervasive part of American culture, has died. She was 90.

“the toy people wanted no part of.” The Slinky was actually invented years earlier, in 1943, when James was a mechanical engineer in a Philadelphia shipyard. As TIME’s list of the All-TIME ...

There are few sights more satisfying than watching a Slinky descend a flight of stairs, and lining the toy up just right to walk down every step elicits the same feeling as sinking a three-pointer ...

Emma Bozner left her 3-year-old son Brooklyn playing with a slinky, while she got his nursery clothes ready, and when she returned less than a minute later she found him with the toy wrapped ...