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Super Soaker Inventor: Keep toys and millions of other products in the ...

Super Soaker Inventor: Keep toys and millions of other products in the pipeline -- protect the patent ... But the strong patent system that helped me succeed in the 1980s and 1990s is now weaker ... read more

The Inventor Of The Super Soaker Talks About Turning ... - Forbes

Lonnie Johnson's Super Soaker water gun, introduced in 1990, has racked up retail sales of more than $1 billion. Using the revenue from his past success, he's developing two devices he believes ... read more

Meet Lonnie Johnson, The NASA Engineer Who Overcame Segregation To Invent The Super Soaker

While experimenting on a jet pump project for NASA in his bathroom in 1982, Lonnie Johnson shot a stream of water across the room and thought, "This would make a great gun." The Super Soaker went on ... read more

Super Soaker inventor: ‘Put it on the table and let it stand on its ...

Despite his education, training and vast experience in science, Super Soaker was Johnson’s first foray into toys. A recent study by the USPTO found women comprise only 12% of all inventors named ... read more

The Accidental Invention of the Super Soaker - Smithsonian Magazine

The Super Soaker was the top-selling toy in the world in 1992. Fabian Posselt/ullstein picture via Getty Images You might think it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to invent a squirt gun like the ... read more

A look at the Alabama-born inventor of the Super Soaker

A new video series from A+E Networks and Reddit is spotlighting a well-known Alabama-born inventor. Lonnie Johnson, who created the Super Soaker water gun in his "spare time" as a NASA engineer ... read more

How a black inventor beat the odds to create the Super Soaker

The Super Soaker has been inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in Rochester, N.Y. Super Soaker inventor Lonnie Johnson in 1998 wields a pair of guns from his popular Super Soaker brand ... read more

How Alan Dorfman Sold Millions Of Toys By Thinking Small - Forbes

For every Super Soaker and Pokemon hit, Dorfman said, there have been hundreds of misses. “We’re a risk-return business,” he said. “F0r every 500 we have one that takes off like Pokemon. read more

Super Soaker inventor among 7 inductees to Alabama Business Hall of ...

Lonnie Johnson invented the Super Soaker water gun in his "spare time" while employed as a NASA engineer. More than 200 million have been sold since it appeared on the market. read more

‘Shark Tank,’ Abraham Lincoln and the Super Soaker: an ...

Baltimore was an early hub of this innovative spirit. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O of Monopoly game fame) was the first common carrier railroad in America. It was founded in 1828 with t… ... read more

Former NASA engineer and inventor of Super Soaker speaks on power of ...

Lonnie Johnson is a bona fide rocket scientist and brain-busting inventor. He built a robot out of scrap metal and helped develop interplanetary missions for NASA and the stealth bomber program for… ... read more

Twister and Super Soaker join the Toy Hall of Fame - New York Post

These games are no joke! A trio of classic children’s toys were chosen to join the likes of Barbie and Mr. Potato Head in the Toy Hall of Fame in Rochester on Thursday morning: Twister, the ... read more