1. SILLY PUTTY WAS INVENTED BY ACCIDENT. Several individuals claim to have invented Silly Putty, but no matter who's claiming the title of inventor, the underlying story's the same: It was ...

They quickly whipped up a synthetic rubber recipe, which is still used to this day. 9. Silly Putty • Date invented: 1943 In the 1940s, the United States needed a new source of rubber after Japan had ...

Silly Putty was invented by Earl Warrick, a scientist at Dow Corning Corp., during World War II, when the War Production Board was searching for a substitute for rubber. As a rubber substitute ...

Who invented it? There are several competitors for the title ... Most of the time, we are surprised. Silly Putty languished in the world of labs and science until the owner of a toy store in New Haven ...

(AP) _ A World War II scientist was looking for ways to produce synthetic rubber when, by accident, he invented a classic American toy. The pinkish, stretchy stuff that became known as Silly Putty ...

Silly putty is a simple invention, made of boric acid and rubber. Scientists who invented it 70 years ago were looking for an alternative to rubber. But the new material became a toy, and hasn't ...

It is hard to imagine how certain products were invented. How did someone think of the slinky, and silly putty, and potato chips? It turns out many of society's most well-known inventions were ...

So, silly? Hardly. Sponsor Message The putty's creation story is confused and contentious, with credit going to either Dow Corning's Earl Warrick and the wonderfully named Rob Roy McGregor ...