Background
Abbat was born in Le Trait, Normandy to a shipbuilder.
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Jean-Pierre Abbat
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University of Paris.
Career
In 1962 Abbat proposed to Norman McCulloch to make a ballistically equivalent bowling pin out of polyurethane foam. Bowling pins were then made out of wood, with two cylindrical voids, and covered with a thin coating. The polyurethane pin would last much longer than the wooden pin.
The American Bowling Congress were against the idea because it would put Brunswick and American Machine and Foundry, the biggest bowling pin makers, out of business.
Abbat worked for U-Do, Mattel, Kenner, Fisher-Price, and International Telephone And Telegraph, making toys and telephone parts out of urethane and other plastics. Abbat died in Raleigh, North Carolina of colon cancer.
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August 1, 1993 (aged 65)