Americans have spent 60 years playing faithfully with Silly Putty, one of the most popular accidents ever created in a laboratory. Silly Putty first found its way into the hands of children March,6th 1950 selling over 300 million little red eggs of entertainment for the past sixty years now.
The inventor of Silly Putty wasn't looking to create one of this century's biggest entertainers for kids. Scientist James Wright was trying to come up with a synthetic rubber when he was working in his General Electrics laboratory in New Haven Conn. Wright added a combination of boric acid and silicone oil into a test tube that produced a trendsetting and interesting ball of goo.
When James Wright continued to further test and experiment with the mixture he found the ball of clay bouncy,stretchy and mildly entertaining but not containing the properties needed to replace rubber. Wright was unable to come up with any ideas for a practical use of the ball of goo and sent off samples to other scientists for their suggestions failing to get any response.
Strangely enough the odd blob of goo found its way out of the labs and into toy stores worldwide where adults and children then found various creative uses. Adults found the more practical use of Silly Putty such as using it to plug up a hole or to level a leg on a wobbly piece of furniture while children found that Silly Putty was yet even more fascinating by spending hours flattening the clay onto news paper comic pages making a contest out of who could distort the images that transferred into an even more silly picture.
Silly Putty is still one of the most popular toys being sold not to mention one of the most least expensive across America and can usually be found everywhere from large toy store chains and dollar stores right up to the toy isle in your local grocery store.
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