Meet the man who invented the Super Soaker
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2017
- 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 has worked for Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Air Force, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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This is the type of person that should get more recognition
i agree
A propped up Freemason? 🙄😂😂😂😂 publease….
I agree
He is black, he is supposed to be dumb not smart!
Tru
This man is a national treasure.
He deserves a day named after him.
Summer in the 90s wouldn't have been as cool without him.
He's only telling half the story, because the company that produced Super Soaker and Nerf both tried to screw him out of his money. He took them to court and they both ended up regretting trying to screw him out of his royalties and Licensing fees.
They always trying to screw the black man!
Oh shit I didn't know that damn you gotta get it license first
His net worth is 300 million
@@noone8673 Uh, no. Race has nothing to do with it. Corporate greed is the problem. They do the same thing to white inventors. If you don't have a patent, you're fucked!
@@Easycooking422 More like a patent first, then you license it out to companies.
The super soaker was a big part of my life and responsible for countless hours of fun as a kid. God bless this man may he live forever.
Yet so humble.
This man should be treated like a god for his invention.
Literally Heard Dr. Johnson speak at the local college last night. said everything he said here and lots more. about an hour lecture then he took questions from the audience. As a black man I felt nothing but pride listening to him. it was as though I was sitting in the presence of this generations George Washington Carver, Or even Alexander Graham Bell. Brilliant man.
Thank this man
I worked on the early Super Soakers from the 150-through another at least 2-25 models. I made the prototypes and worked with Lonnie for my last year in that project. A fun project. Lonnie was always a pretty quiet guy but in the way where you knew if he was looking at you he had already figured everything about you. I would think, when I walked behind him I could see ideas falling from his head and landing on the floor. He even was a candidate in the Astronaut program and did work on the Galileo Saturn probe, toys was just his. At any rate it was nice to work with a guy who through the years was akin to Captain Kirk!!!! cool guy
Can we just acknowledge everything we have because of this man? How many times we played with this invention, how many movies had a dumb funny scene that made your sides hurt. Even airsoft and paintball was affected by his airpressure tank designs! This man's invention has created massive subcultures with just one endeavor and its inspirational
He is awesome! Could you imagine him being your dad! He’d be the coolest dad on the block by far!
Probably the whole planet.
Lol some one else who was watching this 3 hours ago
That man was my childhood hero then since i had so many nerf dart guns and super soakers.
😪💗
Thank you for making my childhood great!
A battery without a liquid electrolyte?! My grandfather has a patent for a battery, but what Lonnie is researching is world changing.
You could say he should have STAYED OFF THE HOOK
HAHA FUNNY JOKE LMAYO
Thanks Dr Lonnie Johnson FOR ALL YOUR INTELLECT AND INVENTIONS
Salute to this man for making my childhood better!!!
i remember the summer the first supersoaker 50 came out..I was 10 years old :) it was an awesome long hot summer, and almost every kid I knew had one of these. They all broke within 12 months, and we all bought the bigger models the next year.
i had 2 or three of those super soakers i had a lot of fun back then, so i finally know who invented this awesome toy he needs more recognition....thank you sir....thank God for him
Holy shit, Lon the Legend. As a proud former Super Soaker 100 owner in my childhood, this is the first time I've heard Lonnie's story, and I must say, I'm already feeling a parasocial relationship coming on. Jokes aside, Lon is an inspiration.
Praise him
Will you're praising him, he's gonna be praising fried chicken.
@@bythetimeyoufinishedreadin9083 Damn bro, at least edit your comment to make grammatical sense.
@@davidgn40 That was 1 yr ago dude, I'm a changed man now.
@@bythetimeyoufinishedreadin9083 very understandable, hope you have a good day/ night.
I read about this guy in a SAT Writing passage xD
This is such a great story made even better by learning that he reinvested his earnings into renewable energy products. I bought Super Soakers for my nephews when they were kids. Thanks for sharing!
Cool
Thank you for so much fun and so many good memories in my childhood.
Best water gun ever! Thank you Mr. Johnson.
He's a genius.
1:20 i ge a slap of nostalgia
That's dope I used to have several super soakers.
He got me soaked 😛
Love me a smart, sexy man.
Only dude in my hood with the back pack bruh 👌🏾🤦🏾♂️🤙🏾
My cps 2500 kicks like a .22
Thank you for making my childhood a blast.
Budum chshhhhh 🥁
Hate this guy he made me and my brother go to war
Legend has it he is still getting sprayed down in a cage by a couple soarers connected to the sink
Water bill is high asf #worth
Lol
Love the joke
I live in Alabama that dope
The man we all have to thank for a summer childhood
This was actually pretty cool
This dude needs to be in the hall of hall of fames.
We need these back kids need to have fun and go outside and play
Thanks for making my childhood fun!
Thanks to this guy I had a great childhood.
I had no idea this guy used to work at Oak Ridge also, I knew he worked at NASA but I wasn’t familiar with Oak Ridge. That’s the next city over from where I was born and raised, and it’s still my hometown today.
My grandfather had them as one of his main big clients. He used to sell precision cutting and measuring equipment back before big companies and huge corporations were around doing that stuff. And Oakridge was one of his main clients.
Wow so much great NYC memories In the 90's with my Super Soaker 50. The fact he Is a Black man makes It so much cooler. Thank you sir!
A legend. A king. His name is Lonnie Johnson.
Thanks for this excellent invention.
What a story. Great to see he's used the profits for great things
I use to play with those guns when I was a child amazing he is a great man
They also make a hell of a flame thrower!
Lonnie's a Cool Dude
He deserves Nobel prize
Certainly
I still have this!
This man should be idolized more than today's celebrities
King of toy guns!!!!
As a kid I turned down a brand new bike for a Super Soaker. Literally the hottest thing on the market.
I'm in the on time squad
Daniel Guo you're late actually
Thanks for being a part of my childhood! 😁
Legend so many waterfights and laughter around the world when super soaker 50 was released I'm sure the phrase my mum said I'm not aloud to get wet was due to the super soaker lol
Love super soaker..true Hero
This man is living history
Great man, great Einstellung
Nice!
He did something with his talent without relying on religion, race, color, jealousy, envy, or reparations to separate him from everyone else!
This man is a true scientist. Instead of using his Super Soaker money to retire to some tropical paradise and live the good life, he uses it to fund more research and development.
This guy is a legend.
What a legend
I did not know that and it looks really cool.and this is my work to do..
A BLACK MAN INVENTED SUPER SOAKER! Literally just made my teenage years so much more impactful!
Good idea of the maker of the Super Soaker
Great Man Great Mind
Thank you for my childhood
Legend
Guess what technology just became super popular. " Heat pumps"
HARD WORK DEDICATION
Bring themmmmmmmm back !!!!!!!°°
I learn about you at school I love your inventin
This guys brain is priceless
Awe man I was so fond of our Super soaker back in the day. Now I am a parent, I share those old school memories with my children. And May I say that Mr Johnson ought to be an inspiration to all including us minorities. For get athletes. We should aspire to be successful through discipline and hard work that Mr Johnson put in.
I owe this man for so many fond memories as a kid...come to think of it, I got my ass whooped a lot because of his products. Oh well, thanks for making such cool toys!
Now he’s working on super soakers of Mass distraction 😂👍🚀
It's a terrible shame that they reduce this beautiful handsome talented smart man to just a water gun he's an inventor engineer and they know that he has inventions that could change the world but all we know him for is a water gun the Super Soaker he's invented so many things he is very many pet even patents that could save us money when it comes to clean energy but have you heard anything about this y'all know because they are keeping it a secret. Not only is he handsome is heaven and intelligent but this man has inventions that could change the world
Not trying to be that guy but...
wow I'm so happy that he's African American!!!
Kenneth Graham IKR
You didn't try very hard.
Kenneth Graham
African*
Kenneth Graham well, if you put that factor in high esteem, that doesn't do u any justice, if u know what I mean. and I am black.
Kenneth Graham ikr
But Great Big Story already did this?
I want to know more about his engine that converts heat into electricity, one of the hurdles that we have for achieving space battle level tech in our society is the overheating issue since space is really hard to dissipate heat away from ships. If it is converted from heat to electricity, then you kill two birds with one stone
wow childhood hero
Woomy!
THIS BOY IS AMBITIOUS YAS BOY GOALS
Seen this story before on some other channel 🤔
Cooper it should be on tech insider
Business insider*
They copied it
My youngest brother had the first model, and later a bigger model. When they came out I was 16 years old. Yes they did try and screw him out of money.
He should be president
It sold like crazy! Everyone had a Super Soaker 50....everyone. If your reading this thinking “I didn’t have one”....you’re wrong. You did...you just didn’t know where it was.
This guy is so cool
Damn. Me, eating a hot pocket
Lol I love super soakers I owned one when I was a kid and when I got bored with it i used to get the yellow tank, put it on the end of a mop stick and Waco stone man do they fly the amount that got smashed 😂
I swear without him how would we learn how to get rebelious with other kids and drown them to death
Nice to see black entrepreneurs making it in Merica
Why did they stop making them I loved it as a kid ????
He's the goat 🐐 of toy guns 🔫 💪
So this is the guy who made the Oozinator..
Give him the Nobel prize.
Yeah science!
I knew this guy before all of you guys!
He build a water gun made of stone and sticks in the Stone Age.
Midnight Expert is that suppose to be funny.?