Lonnie Johnson: I'm Lonnie Johnson. I'm an inventor. The invention that most people know me for is the Super Soaker water gun. I knew the gun worked well, and I knew it would be successful.

Lonnie Johnson was brought up in Mobile, Alabama in the 1960s, when Black children were not expected to go far. But such was ...

Every kid knows it today as the Super Soaker. It marked a quantum leap forward in water guns. This gun shoots a dousing stream 30 feet or more. The Super Soaker also racked up more than $1 billion ...

The Super Soaker was a game changer when came to squirt guns and summer fun. And you have Lonnie Johnson to thank for it. The man behind one of the most popular toys of all time is an engineer who ...

Today may well be the hottest day of the year, so we invited Innovation Manager and Chief Engineer for Sugru, Jude Pullen, to join us with his company's innovative water pistol. Wondering where to ...

In the early 1990s, he convinced the company that was developing the first Super Soaker water guns to grant him the license to make a miniature, fully working, version, and put it on a keychain.