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Lonnie Johnson: The Father of the Super Soaker

posted by CoolHand on Saturday August 27 2016, @12:09AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday August 27 2016, @07:14AM

    by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Saturday August 27 2016, @07:14AM (#393875) Journal

    I read the entire article a few weeks ago, and i enjoyed it. Those super soaker patent diagrams are very intricate.

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