🧵 The Accidental Invention of the Slinky
How a Falling Spring Became a Toy Store Legend
The Slinky wasn’t meant to be a toy, it just sort of tripped into history, one staircase at a time. A forgotten coil, a happy accident, and boom: serendipity did its thing. What started as an engineer’s whoops became a wiggly icon that’s been bouncing through living rooms (and timelines) ever since.
The Discovery
In 1943, deep in a Philly shipyard, engine…
