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NinjaPoodle 10-05-2003 02:29 AM

African American Inventors
 
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/featur...ricanInventors

TRSimon 10-07-2003 01:50 PM

Lonnie Johnson, Super Soaker Inventor
 
The inventor of the Super Soaker is a nuclear engineer named Dr. Lonnie Johnson (a Tuskegee graduate - go HBCUs), who was employed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena California as a spacecraft systems engineer on the Galileo mission to Jupiter.

In 1992 (a year when the Super Soaker garnered $200 million in retail sales), the Cobb Chamber of Commerce named Johnson Research & Development (Dr. Johnson's company) "Small Business of the Year."

Johnson Research & Development was also awarded a contract with NASA to develop the Johnson Tube ®, an innovative refrigeration system that eliminates the need for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).

:) Just thought I would add that.


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