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Credit for the invention of Silly Putty is disputed and has been attributed variously to Earl Warrick, of the then newly-formed Dow Corning; Harvey Chin; and James Wright, a Scottish inventor working for General Electric in New Haven, Connecticut. Throughout his life, Warrick insisted that he and his colleague, Rob Roy McGregor, received the patent for Silly Putty before Wright did; but Crayola's history of Silly Putty states that Wright first invented it in 1943. Both researchers independently discovered that reacting boric acid with silicone oil would produce a gooey, bouncy material with several unique properties.
Earl Warrick, Harvey Chin, or James Wright invented it. No one knows for sure. Charles Goodyear had nothing to do with it.
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Silly putty is trademarked by Crayola. Some say it was invented by Earl L. Warrick who worked for Dow Corning. Crayola says it was invented by James Wright, who was an engineer working for General Electric in 1943. Peter Hodgson took some of what James Wright made to the International Toy Fair in 1950. It became a very popular toy because it bounced.
It was accidentally invented. During World War II the United State government rationed rubber. In the need to find a rubber or rubber substitute, silly putty was accidentally invented. Earl Warrick and James Wright are both a credited with the creation of silly putty. Silly putty was quickly ruled out to be used as a substitute for rubber and was nothing but left on the floor as no more than a strange compound. In 1949 it came to a toy store owner,, Ruth Fallgatter, who sold it for $2 a case. Marketing consultant Peter Hodgson eventually continues personal sale of the substance in plastic eggs for $1. During the Korean War, Hodgson was almost put out of business in 1951. The United States began to ration silicone, one of two major reactants (boric acid & silicone oil). A year later business continued, finally reach around the world. Hodgson died in 1976 and Binney and Smith, the makers of Crayola products, acquired the rights to Silly Putty a year later.
I'm pretty sure it's one they made up just to be silly.
They are known as the Earl and Countess
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The invention of Poly-T (later rebranded as Tupperware) in the form of polyethylene bowls made Earl Tupper a millionaire. The airtight and reusable nature of the bowls revolutionized food storage in the post-World War II era, leading to their widespread popularity and Tupper's subsequent success.
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Earl Torgeson went by The Earl of Snohomish.