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 ...

“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 ...

The new History Channel docuseries, “The Toys That Built America,” premiering Sunday (Nov. 29) at 9 p.m., uncovers the surprising history of iconic products such as the Slinky, Silly Putty ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...