Richard T. James

Inventor of the Slinky (1914-1974) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 60

Richard Thompson James was an American naval engineer, best known for inventing the Slinky spring toy with his wife Betty James in Haverford Township, Pennsylvania in 1943.

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