Andrew's+Report

Have you wanted more info about silly putty®? Read on and you will find lots and lots of silly putty ® facts.

Back in World War 2 (ww2) the army really needed rubber. They needed it for gas masks, bombers, and life rafts. So, one day James Wright, a GE engineer, was trying to make a substitute for rubber. He accidentally mixed boric acid and silicone oil. He didn’t succeed in making a rubber substitute, but he did make silly putty®.

Silly putty® can bounce higher than a normal rubber ball. Did you know that? Some Silly putty® can glow in the pitch black dark! Silly putty® can stretch very far too. When great force is used when pulling silly putty®, it will snap in two. It can copy images.

Back in the day, no uses for silly putty® were found until about 3-9 years after it was made. Then, Peter Hodgson found out about it, and put it in his toy catalog.

Now silly putty® is used as a toy. Silly putty® can copy images for even more fun. It is also used as a stress reliever for adults there are not many uses for silly putty®.

Now here are some cool silly putty® experiments that you can do at home:

 1) Put silly putty in a glass, and put it in a microwave for about three minutes. You’ll notice that it’s hot and sticky. After it cools down it’ll go back to its original state.

 2) Put silly putty in your oven for fifteen minutes at about 450°F, on the cookie sheet that you put the silly putty® on there’ll be a mixture of very hot and sticky silly putty® and dried putty.

 3) Burn silly putty® you’ll notice that it burns bright white and very slowly.

In the first couple of days of silly putty® being advertised orders from across the country were asking for three million eggs, in three days!!!

That’s the end of my report, and I’m just scratching the tip of the iceberg! There must be infinity things to know

about silly putty®! I hope ya’ had fun reading!