Richard T. James
The Inventor of the slinky
Richard T. James
Main inventor of Slinky
Betty James
Took part in invention
The slinky
The invention
Date of Birth/Death
- Birth- 1914
- Death-1974
- Cause of death- heart failure
- Died at age 60
Early Life
- In 1939 he graduated
- He graduated from Westtown school
- In 1935 he got with a degree in mechanical engineering
Family
- He had a wife named Betty
- He had 6 children
- He had 16 grandchildren
- His wife was the one who gave the slinky its name
Adult Life
- He developed a coil winding machine, that started the James Spring & Wire Company
- Around 1960, James suffered from a mid-life crisis and left his wife
- He sold over 300 million slinkys
- He was a naval engineer
- He and his wife, Betty both took part in the invention
Why we chose this inventor
- Because we like slinkys
- We wanted to see who invented the slinky
- Because we were assigned to do a project on inventors
I think this invention is important because....
Because they are cheap, and fun to play with!
Creators
Caitlin& Madison
How he created it
He was working with tension springs when he dropped one and it started moving. This created the toy