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When
Norman Stingley was experimenting
with a high-resiliency synthetic rubber, he accidentally
came upon a new object, a small ball which when compressed
under a large amount of pressure would exhibit incredible
abilities to bounce. Stingley named the compound Zectron
but the ball become known as the Super Ball.
The
Super Ball was capable of bouncing 92 percent of the
height from which it was originally dropped. It was
marketed by the fad toy giant Wham-O and by
1965, more than six million had been sold. The toys
ended up in the White House as Cabinet member McGeorge
Bundy passed them out to staff members.
