10 Facts About Slinky

Slinky is a helical spring toy invented by Richard James in the early 1940s.

Slinky was invented and developed by American naval engineer Richard T James in 1943 and demonstrated at Gimbels department store in Philadelphia in November 1945.

Slinky was originally priced at $1, but many paid much more due to price increases of spring steel in Pennsylvania.

Slinky's dubbed the toy Slinky, after finding the word in a dictionary, and deciding that the word aptly described the sound of a metal spring expanding and collapsing.

Slinky was a hit, and the first 400 units were sold within ninety minutes.

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In 1995, the Slinky Dog was redesigned for all of Pixar's Toy Story and Toy Story Live Action movies.

Betty James approved of the new Slinky Dog, telling the press, "The earlier Slinky Dog wasn't nearly as cute as this one.

The Slinky was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2000 in their Celebrate the Century stamp series.

In 2003, Slinky was named to the Toy Industry Association's "Century of Toys List", a roll call of the 100 most memorable and most creative toys of the twentieth century.

Several online videos have shown the Slinky acting as an excellent squirrel deterrent for bird feeders when mounted on the pole of the bird feeder to prevent squirrels from climbing up the pole to reach the bird feeders.