Slinky - Blast from the past

From the Early 1940s this toy has been making its way down more stairs than an office worker working on the 50th floor!

How did it all start?
Well in 1943, a guy called Richard James, who was a U.S. Naval engineer stationed at the Cramp shipyards in Philadelphia happened to see a spring fall off a table and roll around on the deck. It was the fact that the torsion spring was seen by Mr James that got him thinking as that spring has no compression or tension. Mr James decided to make it into a toy for kids and so the "Slinky" was born.