This Friday, on National Slinky Day, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission will be installing a historical marker to commemorate the invention of the toy in Clifton Heights ...

the first for the borough outside of Philadelphia. It commemorates the town’s most famous native: the Slinky. The coiled toy that walks down stairs — alone or in pairs — was invented by Richard James, ...

The story of the Slinky begins with a mechanical engineer, a shipbuilding factory, and a mishap. It was 1943. The U.S. Navy needed ships for World War II as the Battle of the Atlantic raged in the ...

One of the most iconic toys, the Slinky, was invented in 1943 by a mechanical engineer. The toy hit store shelves two years later, in 1945, according to Smithsonian Magazine. According to ...

“People know what a Slinky is, and to really put a historical ... We all had one or more friends who had one,” he said. “It was invented in 1964 by a chemist [and] that’s a great backstory ...

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 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 100 Greatest Toys later explained ...

It is hard to imagine how certain products were invented. How did someone think of the slinky, and silly putty, and potato chips? It turns out many of society's most well-known inventions were ...

“The Slinky is probably one of the most iconic ... iconic part of American heritage and American toys and games.” Richard James invented the slinking toy by accident 75 years ago, with his ...

Alyson Kreuger contributed additional research to this article. The Slinky Inventor: Richard Jones, a naval engineer. What he was trying to make: In 1943, Jones was trying to design a meter to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Per the Variety report, the movie titled Slinky will center on the wife of Slinky inventor ...