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  1. James Spring and Wire Company is a leading designer and manufacturer of standard and custom springs. In the 1940’s, our founder Richard James invented the beloved precompressed helical spring toy, the “Slinky.”.

  2. Nov 9, 2021 · Richard James, the founder of James Spring & Wire Company, invented the much-loved precompressed helical spring toy in 1943 while serving as a naval engineer at the William Cramp & Sons shipyards in Philadelphia. James wasn’t looking to invent a new children’s toy.

  3. Dec 12, 2017 · James Spring had hit his late 30s, and found his life utterly unremarkable. He needed to do something big. So James decided to try to rescue two kids who had been kidnapped by suspected murderers, and taken to Mexico.

  4. Experts in Spring Manufacturing Since 1960. Founded by Richard James, the inventor of the “Slinky”, James Spring & Wire Company is a leading spring manufacturing specialist of custom springs, wire and strip forms and precision metal stampings.

  5. Oct 18, 2008 · Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008 | San Diego native James Spring tells jaw-dropping tales through radio and the written word, and some of his best tales are his own. Spring, a former foreign correspondent in Latin America for Cox Newspapers, has delved into the worlds of Minutemen, motorcycle racers and Tarahumara drug traffickers as an ...

  6. Apr 5, 2012 · James Spring, a San Diego man who had in his youth been a methamphetamine smuggler before becoming an advertising copywriter and family man, detailed the story of how...

  7. James Spring - stories from Mexico and the border region. James Spring is a contributor to This American Life. Much of his work is based in Mexico where, sometimes, he finds people who've gone missing.