Richard Thompson was born in Delaware back in 1914. In 1935 he graduated from Westtown School in Pennsylvania. In 1939, he graduated from the Pennsylvanian State University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
In 1943, while attempting to develop a means for suspending sensitive instrument aboard ships even in rough seas he dropped a tension spring which gave him an idea. So, he started the James Spring & Wire Company. His idea caught on and the company has sold over 300,000,000. Right now, it is still in production with a quarter of a billion are still being sold each year.
Now you may be asking yourself what in the world was that invention. Well Richard Thompson James and his wife Betty invented the Slinky. Yep, that is how it came to be. Until tomorrow keep a smile on your face and a penny in your pocket. Who knows what the next great invention will come out of an accident.
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