The NASA Engineer Who Invented the Super Soaker Water Gun

 

 

 Lonnie George Johnson 

(born October 6, 1949)

 

 After graduating from high school, Johnson attended Tuskegee University, obtaining a B.S. in mechanical engineering and a master's degree in nuclear engineering.^[2][7] 

 

He also holds an honorary Ph.D. in Science from Tuskegee University.^[8] He then worked for the U.S. Air Force, and then joined NASA's jet propulsion laboratory in 1979.[