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Melanie Monday, September 27, 2010 Period 7 Computer # 19 Music: Free Play Music, Hip Hop, 10/4/10, www.freeplaymusic.com www.freeplaymusic.com.

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1 Melanie Monday, September 27, 2010 Period 7 Computer # 19 Music: Free Play Music, Hip Hop, 10/4/10, www.freeplaymusic.com www.freeplaymusic.com

2 Inventor: Richard James Richard James was born in Philadelphia. He once sold 400 slinkys in just 90 minutes. He also invented machines that could coil 80 feet of steel wire into a slinky in just 10 seconds. James did not mean to create the slinky in the first place, it was all an accident. Though he invented the Slinky, he did not name it, his wife did.

3 Invention: The Slinky The Slinky came out by accident! The Slinky was invented in 1943. By the 50 th anniversary of Slinkys (1995), Richard James had sold over a quarter of a billion Slinkys. NASA used slinkys in zero-gravity physics experiments in the space shuttle. US troops in Vietnam used slinkys to demonstrate them as mobile radio antennas.

4 Lemelsons MIT program, Slinkys, Sept. 29, 2010, http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/slinky.html http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/slinky.html


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