Sunday, January 9, 2011

Sloppy Joe

Naval engineer Richard James was developing springs that could support and stabilize sensitive instruments aboard ships in rough seas, when he accidently dropped one of them. He thus realized that if he got the right property of steel and the right tension, he could make it walk.

What did Richard James end up inventing?

5 comments:

Siddarth Pai said...

Slinky

Unknown said...

Slinky.
The cool spring toy.

Dhiraj said...

i donno wat its called but its dat springy and flimsy toy which if left travels down a flight of stairs.by d name uve given i guess it is sloppy??

the grand swami said...

slinky

Unknown said...

slikny toy in simple a spring