Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Celebrating Black History with Lonnie George Johnson Inventor of the Super Soaker Water Gun

 



Lonnie George Johnson 

(born October 6, 1949)

 

 Out of both interest and economic necessity, Johnson's father was a skilled handyman who taught his six children to build their own toys. 

 

When Johnson was still a small boy, he and his dad built a pressurized chinaberry shooter out of bamboo shoots.

 

 At the age of 13, Johnson attached a lawnmower engine to a go-kart he built from junkyard scraps and raced it along the highway until the police pulled him over.

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