Showing posts with label Lonnie George Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lonnie George Johnson. Show all posts

Monday, February 3, 2014

Cool Shit Black People Invented: Lonnie George Johnson


Today's inventor Lonnie George Johnson created something that while it hasn't changed the world, it changed a lot of lives. Mostly for the better if you were on the giving end of his invention. Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1949 he realized that he was destined for great things. In college he got a B.S in mechanical Engineering and a M.S in Nuclear Engineering from Tuskegee University. And then he said fuck all that and created this!

Yeah!!!

That's right! The Super Soaker. In 1989 he created this and licensed it to Larami Corporation and within two years it made over $200 million which was then bought by Hasbro. He took all the money he made from this and put it into two of his separate companies that do things, like, oh I don't know, creating all kinds of new energy science shit! He is making new ways to use his Johnson Thermo Electrochemical Convertor System for work with solar and thermal power uses.