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A water gun using this system is pressurized by air being pumped and compressed into its reservoir. When the trigger is pulled, a valve is opened and the compressed air pushes the water out of the nozzle. [13] Super Soaker started with two pressurized reservoir water guns, and has continued to produce them in various shapes and sizes.
Lonnie George Johnson (born October 6, 1949) is an American inventor, aerospace engineer, and entrepreneur, best known for inventing the bestselling Super Soaker water gun in 1989. He was formerly employed at the U.S. Air Force and NASA , where he worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
A Big Bang Cannon and its box. The Big-Bang Cannon, also known as the Calcium Cannon, is an American toy cannon first manufactured in the early 20th-century. Numerous consumer fireworks injuries [1] convinced a physics professor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to patent a "Gas Gun" in 1907, and the manufacturing of Big-Bang Cannons started in 1912, from the Gas Cannon Company.
A young girl playing with a water gun. A water gun (or water pistol, water blaster, or squirt gun) is a type of toy gun designed to shoot jets of water.Similar to water balloons, the primary purpose of the toy is to soak another person in a recreational game such as a water fight.
Tin toy car, Toytown line, Wyandotte Toys. All Metal Products Company was an American toy company founded in 1920 and based in Wyandotte, Michigan for most of its history. It produced inexpensive pressed metal toys under the Wyandotte brand name, and was the largest manufacturer of toy guns in the US for several decades in the 20th century. [1]
Lewis gun: Light machine gun United Kingdom: 202,050 Colt Model 1860 Army: Revolver United States: 200,500 [52] MAB Model D pistol: Semi-automatic pistol France: 200,000+ Škorpion vz. 61: Submachine gun Czechoslovakia: 200,000 FM 24/29 light machine gun: Light machine gun France: 190,400 Rast & Gasser M1898: Revolver Austria-Hungary: 180,000
Entertech was a brand of battery-powered motorized water guns sold in the United States from 1985 to 1990 by the now-defunct LJN. [1] [2] [3] Unlike the colorful designs of many of the simple hand powered pump water guns of that time, most of the Entertech water guns were manufactured from black plastics with a matte finish to resemble real ...
The Oozinator is a toy water gun manufactured by Hasbro, Inc.It is a member of the Super Soaker family, which includes ten other squirt-gun toys. It gained notoriety after its release due to its ability to discharge a viscous compound that resembled human semen, [1] [2] as well as its suggestive television advertisements that depicted the compound being forcefully ejected onto unwilling children.