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Betty James
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Bellis, Mary “Slinky.” [Online] Available http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blslinky.htm Accessed 8 March 2002.
DeLeon, Clark. Pennsylvania Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities, & Other Off Beat Stuff. Guilford, CT: the Globe Pequot Press, c2001.
“House of Toys: Slinky.” [Online] Available http://www.houseoftoys.com/history/items/toys%20slinky.htm Accessed 8 March 2002.
Letter from Betty James [no heading provided on the page] [Online] Available http://www.aasdcat.com/cyber98.letter.html Accessed 8 March 2002.
Response from Betty James to letter from Melissa Yates, December 2004. On file.
Response from Hon. Richard Geist to letter from Melissa Yates. March 2005. On file.
“Slinky History.” [Online] Available http://www.slinkytoys.com/toys/history.asp Accessed 8 March 2002.
“Slinky Scientific Shindig: Slinky Science Teacher’s Guide.” [Online] Available http://www.eecs.umich.edu/mathscience/funexperiments/quickndirty/slinky.html Accessed 8 March 2002.
“T.O.T.Y Toy of the Year Awards. Press Release.” [Online] Available http://www.toy-tia.org/toty/press-bettyjames.html Accessed 8 March 2002.
Weiss, Michael J. “Toys Were Us. Zing Went the Spring...” [Online] Available http://www.discovery.com/stories/history/toys/SLINKY/shoulda.html Accessed 8 March 2002.
Wulffson, Don. Toys! Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions. New York: Henry Holt and Co., c2000.