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

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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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @01:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @01:32AM (#393812)

    Don't nobody tell nobody Lonnie Johnson is a bbbbbblack man!

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