Richard T. James
Richard Thompson James (1914–1974) was a naval engineer. He and his wife, Betty were the inventors of the Slinky in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the early 1940s.
Famous quotes containing the words richard and/or james:
“I don’t know how you feel, professor, but I feel like a knife that’s just stabbed a friend in the back.”
—Earl Felton, and Richard Fleischer. Ned Land (Kirk Douglas)
“As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.”
—William James (1842–1910)