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T H E. P R O F E S S O R. Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie George Johnson started out as an ambitious black kid from Alabama and ended as an American inventor, aerospace engineer, and entrepreneur, whose work history includes a U.S. Air Force term of service and a twelve-year stint at NASA, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He invented the Super Soaker water gun in 1990, which has been among the world's bestselling toys ever since.
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By Kai SneedLonnie George Johnson started out as an ambitious black kid from Alabama and ended as an American inventor, aerospace engineer, and entrepreneur, whose work history includes a U.S. Air Force term of service and a twelve-year stint at NASA, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He invented the Super Soaker water gun in 1990, which has been among the world's bestselling toys ever since.