Nutty putty
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Hodgson, who at the time was deeply in debt ($12,000), borrowed money to buy more of the putty and eventually the production rights, renaming it “Silly Putty”.
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The putty went on to be the second best selling item in the catalog, behind Crayola crayons. With the help of marketing consultant Peter Hodgson, she put the item in her toy catalog as “bouncing putty”. Eventually, this led to it coming to the attention of Ruth Fallgatter, who owned a toy store known as the “Block Shop”. Unfortunately, nobody he sent it to could come up with a practical use for his putty either and the invention stayed in relative obscurity for around six years.įrom 1943 to 1949, the primary use of Nutty Putty was just being passed around and played with at cocktail parties as a novelty item, for those few who got their hands on some. Wright then sent samples of it to scientists all over the world to try to see if they could think up or discover a use for it that he missed. Although the goo produced by the mixture obviously wasn’t likely to make a good rubber substitute by itself, Wright did discover it had a variety of interesting properties, but he still couldn’t find a good practical use for it. It was during one of these attempts to create synthetic rubber that Wright mixed boric acid and silicone oil, making the first Silly Putty, which initially became known as “Nutty Putty”. government enlisted the aid of various companies to try and invent a synthetic rubber that could be made of readily available materials. This shortage on rubber was negatively affecting certain wartime production efforts. At the time, the Allies were desperately short on rubber thanks to Japan invading various rubber producing countries in the Pacific Rim. Silly Putty was originally invented by James Wright, working at General Electric’s New Haven, Connecticut lab in 1943. Today I found out Silly Putty was invented by accident.