STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Everyone loves a Slinky - but few have started a campaign to make it the official state toy of Pennsylvania. Retired math teacher Bob Swaim was nearing the end of his ...

If Slinky creator Richard James could turn a spring into a toy, why not turn the toy into a movie? Montreal-based H2V Entertainment has partnered with James Industries, the Hollidaysburg, Pa.-based ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania has a state dog, a state insect, a state fossil, and even a state beverage. Why, Bob Swaim wonders, can’t it also have a state toy? Swaim, a retired math teacher from ...

There are few sights more satisfying than watching a Slinky descend a flight of stairs, and lining the toy up just right to walk down every step elicits the same feeling as sinking a three-pointer, a ...

Penn State graduate Betty James died a decade ago, but her legacy with the Slinky toy lives on. Centre Daily Times, file If you’ve been a kid sometime in the past 75 years, chances are you’ve played ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It looked like a magic trick and enthralled children that Christmas in 1945 in Philadelphia. It was a metal spring, called a Slinky, ...

In 1943 during World War II, Richard James was working as an engineer in the United States Navy. As he worked on a new ship, a torsion spring suddenly fell to the floor. Rather than gracing the ground ...