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Slinky, the Glossary

The Slinky is a helical spring toy invented by Richard T. James in the early 1940s.^[1]

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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (also known as Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls) is a 1995 American detective comedy film and the sequel to Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), and the second installment of the ''Ace Ventura'' franchise.

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Ad Age

Ad Age (known as Advertising Age until 2017) is a global media brand that publishes news, analysis, and data on marketing and media.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC (formerly Andrews, McMeel and Parker (1975–1986) and Andrews and McMeel (1986–1997)) is a company that publishes books, calendars, and related toys.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Betty James

Betty M. James (February 13, 1918 – November 20, 2008) was an American businessperson who came up with the name for the Slinky her husband Richard T. James invented.

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Blake Clark

Blake Clark is an American stand-up comedian and actor.

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Bolivia

Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Business Wire

Business Wire is an American company that disseminates full-text press releases from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases, bloggers, social networks and other audiences.

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Celebrate the Century

Celebrate the Century is the name of a series of postage stamps made by the United States Postal Service featuring images recalling various important events in the 20th century in the United States.

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Crain Communications

Crain Communications Inc is an American multi-industry publishing conglomerate based in Detroit, Michigan, United States, with 13 non-US subsidiaries.

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Delaware County Daily Times

The Delaware County Daily Times is a daily newspaper founded 1876.

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Eddie Murphy

Edward Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American comedian, actor, and singer.

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Eddie Murphy Raw

Eddie Murphy Raw is a 1987 American stand-up comedy film starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Robert Townsend.

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Emile Hirsch

Emile Davenport Hirsch (born March 13, 1985) is an American actor.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Gimbels

Gimbel Brothers (known simply as Gimbels) was an American department store corporation that operated for over a century, from 1842 until 1987.

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Gravity

In physics, gravity is a fundamental interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things that have mass.

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Gravity of Earth

The gravity of Earth, denoted by, is the net acceleration that is imparted to objects due to the combined effect of gravitation (from mass distribution within Earth) and the centrifugal force (from the Earth's rotation).

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Heart failure

Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome caused by an impairment in the heart's ability to fill with and pump blood.

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Helen Herrick Malsed

Helen Herrick Malsed (1910 – November 13, 1998) was an American toy inventor.

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Helix

A helix is a shape like a cylindrical coil spring or the thread of a machine screw.

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Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania

Hollidaysburg is a borough in and the county seat of Blair County in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Hooke's law

In physics, Hooke's law is an empirical law which states that the force needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance scales linearly with respect to that distance—that is, where is a constant factor characteristic of the spring (i.e., its stiffness), and is small compared to the total possible deformation of the spring. Slinky and Hooke's law are springs (mechanical).

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Houston Museum of Natural Science

The Houston Museum of Natural Science (abbreviated as HMNS) is a natural history museum located on the northern border of Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Inclined plane

An inclined plane, also known as a ramp, is a flat supporting surface tilted at an angle from the vertical direction, with one end higher than the other, used as an aid for raising or lowering a load.

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Isuzu MU

The Isuzu MU is a mid-size SUV which was produced by Japan-based manufacturer Isuzu from 1989 to 2004.

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Jim Carrey

James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian-American actor and comedian known for his energetic slapstick performances.

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Jim Varney

James Albert Varney Jr. (June 15, 1949 – February 10, 2000) was an American actor and comedian.

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Johnson Space Center

The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is NASA's center for human spaceflight in Houston, Texas (originally named the Manned Spacecraft Center), where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted.

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KXMB-TV

KXMB-TV (channel 12) is a television station in Bismarck, North Dakota, United States, serving as an affiliate of CBS and an owned-and-operated station of The CW Plus.

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Las Vegas Review-Journal

The Las Vegas Review-Journal is a daily subscription newspaper published in Las Vegas, Nevada, since 1909.

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List of Toy Story characters

This is a list of characters from Disney/Pixar's ''Toy Story'' franchise which consists of the animated feature films Toy Story (1995), Toy Story 2 (1999), Toy Story 3 (2010) and Toy Story 4 (2019), and Lightyear (2022).

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List of U.S. state toys

State toys are designated by each U.S. state's legislature.

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Lords of Dogtown

Lords of Dogtown is a 2005 American biographical drama film that captures the rise of skateboarding culture in the 1970s Santa Monica and Venice, California.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering

The MIT School of Engineering (SoE) is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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National Toy Hall of Fame

The National Toy Hall of Fame is a U.S. hall of fame that recognizes the contributions of toys and games that have sustained their popularity for many years.

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North American International Toy Fair

The North American International Toy Fair (formerly the American International Toy Fair and also known as Toy Fair New York) is an annual toy industry trade show held in mid-February in New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and at toy showrooms around the city.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Pennsylvania General Assembly

The Pennsylvania General Assembly is the legislature of the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios, known simply as Pixar, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films.

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Richard Geist

Richard A. "Rick" Geist (November 21, 1944 – August 29, 2019) was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 79th District, first elected in 1978.

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Richard T. James

Richard Thompson James (March 27, 1914 – July 13, 1974) was an American naval engineer, best known for inventing the Slinky spring toy with his wife Betty James in Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania in 1943.

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Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Monroe County.

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Sonia Paço-Rocchia

Sonia Paço-Rocchia /so.ˈnja ˈpa.so ˈrɔ.kja/, born in 1982 in Montreal, is a composer, multidisciplinary artist, improviser, bassoonist and creative coder.

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Space Shuttle Discovery

Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter.

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Spring (device)

A spring is a device consisting of an elastic but largely rigid material (typically metal) bent or molded into a form (especially a coil) that can return into shape after being compressed or extended. Slinky and spring (device) are springs (mechanical).

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Ren & Stimpy Show

The Ren & Stimpy Show, commonly referred to as simply Ren & Stimpy, is an American comedy animated television series created by John Kricfalusi, and developed by Kricfalusi, Bob Camp, Jim Smith and Lynne Naylor for Nickelodeon.

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The Strong

The Strong is an interactive, collections-based educational institution in Rochester, New York, United States, devoted to the study and exploration of play.

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Toy

A toy or plaything is an object that is used primarily to provide entertainment.

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Toy Association

The Toy Association is an American trade association for the US toy industry.

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Toy Story (franchise)

Toy Story is an American media franchise created by Pixar Animation Studios and owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Wycliffe USA

Wycliffe Bible Translators USA (also known as Wycliffe USA) is an interdenominational nonprofit organization with a goal "for people from every language to understand the Bible and be transformed." Based in Orlando, Florida, it partners with many organizations and churches around the world to help facilitate the work of Bible translation.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slinky

Also known as Poof-Slinky, Slinkee, Slinkey, Slinki, Slinkie, Slinky Dog, Slinky Dog (toy), Slinky Train, Slinky jingle.

, Toy, Toy Association, Toy Story (franchise), Washington (state), Wycliffe USA.

Slinky, the Glossary

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See also

1940s toys

1950s toys

Goods manufactured in the United States

Metal toys

Poof-Slinky

Products introduced in 1945

Springs (mechanical)

References