Prepare to be amazed by this incredible engineering feat where a “Slinky” spring is powered by a 1 horsepower Lego engine! This unique project combines the fun and nostalgia of the classic slinky toy ...

But James Spring & Wire Company (later known ... which would later become inspiration for the Slinky Dog character in Pixar's "Toy Story" movies. While they didn't have as much staying power ...

James filed a patent for the toy the same month of its ... A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing/ Ev’ryone knows it’s Slinky!’” After Richard James left his family in 1960 to move to ...

Betty James, who named the toy her husband invented -- the Slinky -- and rebuilt the toy ... to stabilize instruments on ships at sea when a spring fell off a shelf. He watched it bounce end ...

Sales were slow. Customers couldn't understand how a spring could be a toy. The James family had to show the world what the Slinky could do. They convinced Gimbels department store in Philadelphia ...

When the Slinky was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2000, more than 250 million had been sold to date. Kathryn8/Getty Images As its jingle once cheered: “A spring, a spring ...

Born on the water in Philadelphia, the Slinky was developed by one of the first great women of the American toy industry. Maura McGlensey, 6, of Clifton Heights, plays with a Slinky during the ...

Slinky, the spare-yet-classic toy coil, marks 60 years of springy entertainment in 2005. As toys become further tied to technology and digital mechanics, this simple spiral _ still no batteries ...

His mission was to devise a spring to stabilize equipment ... on a marketing campaign that helped turn the Slinky into one of the landmark toys for a generation of kids -- one with staying power ...