Tom Kuhn

Tom Kuhn (also known as Dr. Yo) is an American dentist and yo-yo designer based in San Francisco, California. Dissatisfied with the plastic yoyos of the 1970s, and nostalgic for the wooden yoyos of his youth, Kuhn developed the "No-Jive" yoyo, which is popular to the present.^[1]

Kuhn's own dental patients provided him support in his yo-yo career, with a lawyer patient advising him on a patent, and another advising he contact NASA regarding new space-age materials.^[2] Kuhn continued his dentistry while working in the yo-yo field, displaying his yo-yo collection in the lobby of the Victorian home used as his office.^[3]

In 1979, Kuhn set a Guinness World Record for the largest yo-yo, weighing 256 pounds.^[4]

References

^ Discover. Time. 1989. p. 92.
^ Richard Stim; Lisa Guerin (2008). Wow! I'm in Business: A Crash Course in Business Basics. Nolo. pp. 258–. ISBN 978-1-4133-0654-5.
^ Neil Baum; Gretchen Henkel (22 October 2010). Marketing Your Clinical Practice: Ethically, Effectively, Economically: Ethically, Effectively, Economically. Jones & Bartlett Publishers. pp. 54–. ISBN 978-1-4496-5397-2.
^ David A. Boehm (1 November 1989). Guinness Book of World Records, 1990. Sterling. p. 315. ISBN 978-0-8069-5791-3.

External links

Official website
Tom Kuhn at Yoyowiki

[1] Discover. Time. 1989. p. 92.

[StimGuerin2008-2] Richard Stim; Lisa Guerin (2008). Wow! I'm in Business: A Crash Course in Business Basics. Nolo. pp. 258–. ISBN 978-1-4133-0654-5.

[BaumHenkel2010-3] Neil Baum; Gretchen Henkel (22 October 2010). Marketing Your Clinical Practice: Ethically, Effectively, Economically: Ethically, Effectively, Economically. Jones & Bartlett Publishers. pp. 54–. ISBN 978-1-4496-5397-2.

[Boehm1989-4] David A. Boehm (1 November 1989). Guinness Book of World Records, 1990. Sterling. p. 315. ISBN 978-0-8069-5791-3.

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