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 ...

To Johnson, it's all about "not giving up." Lonnie Johnson's Keys Inventor of the top-selling Super Soaker squirt gun, plus holder of more than 100 other patents.Overcame: Technical challenges to ...

“If you’re a fifth grader studying entrepreneurship lessons, you can say, ‘Hey let’s talk about the Super Soaker.’ As you know that was famously invented by someone from Mobile – a ...