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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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Lonnie Johnson: The Father of the Super Soaker
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(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Saturday August 27 2016, @01:54AM
In the context of our thread I believe he refers to the idea that no amount of outside influence, such as schools or community programs, can take the place of intellectually-nurturing parental figures. Just ask any teacher how much harder her job is trying to get through to a student with indifferent or anti-education parents.
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