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Lonnie Johnson: The Father of the Super Soaker

posted by CoolHand on Saturday August 27 2016, @12:09AM   
from the wet-em-down dept.

wirelessduck writes:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37062579

Lonnie Johnson was brought up in Mobile, Alabama in the 1960s, when black children were not expected to go far, but such was his talent for engineering that he worked for Nasa, and helped test the first stealth bomber. But as he explains here, the invention that made his fortune was a water pistol - the extremely powerful Super Soaker.

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• "Sons of bitches" "Sons of bitches" (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @01:14AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @01:14AM (#393800)

  Bainbridge reportedly told Oppenheimer "we are all sons of bitches" after the nuclear bomb test.

  Of course, they had no idea - they couldn't hold a candle next to Lonnie Johnson who came along 40 years later.

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• Re:"Sons of bitches" Re:"Sons of bitches" (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @01:47AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @01:47AM (#393819)

  Another millenial moron with mod points who can't handle humor.

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  • Re:"Sons of bitches" (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @01:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @01:40PM (#393924)

    This is what millennial snowflakes think humor is?

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