In 1943, Silly Putty was accidentally invented by James Wright, an engineer in General Electric's New Haven laboratory, which was under a government contract to create an inexpensive substitute for synthetic rubber for the war effort. By combining boric acid with silicone oil, a material resulted...
A polymer is achemical compoundwith molecules bonded together in long, repeating chains. Because of their structure, polymers have unique properties that can be tailored for different uses. Polymers are both man-made and naturally occurring. Rubber, for example, is a natural polymeric material that...
1955: Silly Putty The Strong - National Museum of Play 1955: Silly Putty Original estimated retail price: $1 No one’s certain who invented Silly Putty, but nearly all agree the strange material was invented by accident. The story goes that during WWII, the U.S. government commissioned some...
1955: Silly Putty The Strong - National Museum of Play 1955: Silly Putty Original estimated retail price: $1 No one’s certain who invented Silly Putty, but nearly all agree the strange material was invented by accident. The story goes that during WWII, the U.S. government commissioned some...
1955: Silly Putty The Strong - National Museum of Play 1955: Silly Putty Original estimated retail price: $1 No one’s certain who invented Silly Putty, but nearly all agree the strange material was invented by accident. The story goes that during WWII, the U.S. government commission...
1955: Silly Putty The Strong - National Museum of Play 1955: Silly Putty Original estimated retail price: $1 No one’s certain who invented Silly Putty, but nearly all agree the strange material was invented by accident. The story goes that during WWII, the U.S. government co...
In Home Alone, we're first introduced to the McAllister's neighbor, Old Man Marley, in a scene where Kevin's older brother, Buzz, tells the legend of Marley. Long story short, according to Buzz, Marley kills people with shovels and stuffs their bodies in a trash can full of salt that...
1955: Silly Putty The Strong - National Museum of Play 1955: Silly Putty Original estimated retail price: $1 No one’s certain who invented Silly Putty, but nearly all agree the strange material was invented by accident. The story goes that during WWII, the U.S. government commissioned some...
1955: Silly Putty Original estimated retail price: $1 No one’s certain who invented Silly Putty, but nearly all agree the strange material was invented by accident. The story goes that during WWII, the U.S. government commissioned some chemists to create a synthetic rubber substitute. Th...