KerPlunk

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Who

Eddy Goldfarb, an American Jewish inventor of more than eight hundred toys

When

1967

Where

United States

Eddy Goldfarb served on a submarine in the Pacific war and came home to invent toys for the next seventy years — more than eight hundred of them. KerPlunk, the tube of straws holding up a cargo of marbles, is his, and so are the wind-up chattering teeth.

Sources

Part of “The Gifts of the Jews” — verified Jewish contributions to the world, with sources.