...that the Slinky toy was the result of a failed attempt by engineer Richard James to produce an antivibration device for ship instruments? His goal was to develop a spring that would instantaneously counterbalance the wave motion that rocks a ship at sea. Instead, he developed the Slinky.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5836528 | Chipper A chipper has a housing formed with an intake defining a feed direction, a hollow drum rotatable in the housing in a rotational sense about an axis transverse to the feed direction and formed with a plurality of angularly spaced, radially throughgoing, an... | 11/17/1998 |