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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 .
Super Soaker is an American brand of recreational water gun that uses manually-pressurized air to shoot water with greater power, range, and accuracy than conventional squirt pistols. The Super Soaker was invented in 1989 by engineer Lonnie Johnson .
Larami toys were produced based on several movies, television shows, etc. [3] By the 1980s, Larami Corp. had a growing water gun product line. [2] It was Larami Corp. that eventually marketed and sold the Power Drencher, rebranded as the Super Soaker in 1991 [2] which was based on the pressurized water-air reservoir invented and developed by the former Jet Propulsion Engineer Dr. Lonnie ...
Forty years after the release of the groundbreaking and shelf-clearing Super Soaker, engineer Lonnie Johnson talks about pushing the boundaries The post Watch: Super Soaker inventor Lonnie Johnson ...
A contemporary example of a modern-day inventor is Lonnie George Johnson, an engineer. Johnson invented the Super Soaker water gun, which was the top-selling toy in the United States from 1991 to 1992. In 1980 Johnson formed his own law firm and licensed the Super Soaker water gun to Larami Corporation. Two years later, the Super Soaker ...
Lonnie Johnson may refer to: . Lonnie Johnson (musician) (1899–1970), American blues and jazz singer, guitarist, and songwriter Lonnie Johnson (inventor) (born 1949), American inventor of the Super Soaker
The air pressurized reservoir was introduced by the Cosmic Liquidator but made famous by the Super Soaker brand of water guns. [1] [8] In this device, a pump is used to push air into a partially water-filled reservoir. The reservoir is otherwise air-tight, but it has one valve to let the incoming air in from the pump as well as a manually ...
Johnson is the only one cited in the Super Soaker's invention, yet the patent is held by both he and fellow inventor Bruce D'Andrade. It was D'Andrade who tooled the entire mechanism for the Super Soaker and was commissioned alongside Johnson, yet Johnson takes all of the credit in this article and many outside (much more biased) articles.