The original Slinky was 2.5 in. tall with 75 ft. of high carbon steel wire arranged in 98 coils. James filed a patent for the toy the same month of its first demonstration, and it was approved in ...

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.

Aykut67/iStock With Toy Story 4 in theaters later this month, we’ve been thinking about toys. They’re as old as civilization. Neolithic kids are presumed to have played with sticks and clay balls.

More: 10 worst toys of 2015 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 ...

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.

Now owned by the toy company Alex Brands, an original Slinky will set you back $9.99. To date, more than 250m of them have been sold worldwide: a testament to the fact that some toys have no need ...

Beaten by a slinky.” Thousands of viewers found the video funny, but most of them were skeptical that this “slinky toy trap” would work in the long run.

Slinky’s been around for 75 years, and sales have been strong: There are more than 350 million of the metal, sometimes plastic toy out there. During the pandemic, people are buying lots of ...

A new state historical marker has sprung up in Clifton Heights, Pa., the first for the borough outside of Philadelphia. It commemorates the town’s most famous native: the Slinky. The coiled toy that ...

Slinky, arguably one of the most popular toys in the world, celebrates it's 70th birthday this year. In fact, the Fairfield-based toy company Alex Brands, will call Sunday Slinky Day. MORE: As ...

March 22, 2015 / 3:14 PM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Everyone loves a Slinky - but few have started a campaign to make it the official state toy of Pennsylvania.

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 ...