Lonnie George Johnson (born October 6, 1949) is an American inventor and engineer who holds more than 120 patents. He is the inventor of the Super Soaker water pistol, which has been one of the world's best-selling toys every year since its launch.
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Johnson's father is a World War II veteran and his mother works as a nursing assistant and they live in Mobile, Alabama. As a child, Johnson is very innovative and curious. Some of this curiosity comes at the expense of his family's property. She reverses her doll's engineering to understand how the eyes are closed. He also almost burned his own house while making rocket fuel. In addition, he built his own caster from the lawn mower he attached to the remains he found in the junkyard. In his teenage years, Johnson studied at Williamson's all-black College in Mobile. He drew a lot of his inspiration from George Washington Carver. In 1968, Johnson represented his high school at the Alabama Science Exhibition. He is the only black student in the exhibition at a time when African Americans do not have much presence in science. He created a robot that he named "Linex", which is a high-powered air robot and took home the first prize. Johnson then went to college at Tuskegee University with a math scholarship. When he finished he earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Master of Nuclear Engineering from Tuskegee University.
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- 1978-79: "US Air Force Armed Forces Lab, acting as Chief of Nuclear Space Security Sector"
- 1979-82: "Jet Propulsion Laboratory, senior systems engineer, Galileo Project"
- 1982-85: "US Air Force, Advanced Space Systems Requirements manager for strategic non-nuclear weapons technology"
- 1985-87: "US Air Force, Strategic Air Command, head of data management branch"
- 1987-91: "Engineers on Mariner Mark II Spacecraft series for Comet Rendezvous and Saturn Orbiter Probe missions"
- 1991-: "Johnson Research and Development Co., Inc., founder and president"
After college, Johnson joined the US Air Force, where he worked on a stealth bomb program. Later, he worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab with nuclear power sources for Galileo's mission to Jupiter. More recently, he collaborated with scientists from Tulane University and Tuskegee University to develop a method of converting heat into electricity in order to make green energy more affordable.
Johnson currently has two technology development companies: Excellatron Solid State, LLC and Johnson Electro-Mechanical Systems (JEMS). They both currently operate in the neighborhood of Sweet Auburn in Atlanta.
Excellatron Solid State, LLC is a US-based technology company that focuses on the development and production of solid state batteries, especially thin-film batteries. Its mission is expressed as "... to develop the revolutionary energy storage technology as well as the manufacturing technology necessary for cost effective commercialization." The company's battery boosts safety, high temperature capability, long bike life, flexible thin profile, unique proprietary passivation barrier and packing solutions, and high-level capabilities. The company is targeting military applications and implanted medical equipment as an early consumer.
JEMS has developed Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter System (JTEC), which is listed by Popular Mechanics as one of the top 10 inventions of 2009. The system has potential applications in solar power plants and thermal power plants sea. It converts heat energy into electrical energy using a non-vapor process that works by pushing hydrogen ions through two membranes, with claimed advantages over an alternative system. The companies operate a research laboratory in the neighborhood of Sweet Auburn in Atlanta.
Johnson is "part of a small group of African-American inventors whose work accounts for 6 percent of all US patent applications."
Super Soaker
Johnson contains Super Soaker while working with the US Air Force. On October 14, 1983 he applied for a US patent. On May 27, 1986 he received the patent number 4,591,071. Originally called "Power Drencher" when it appeared in toy stores in 1990, but after some tweaks and remarketing, it got its name. Selling between $ 10 to $ 60 depending on the model, Super Soaker took off, generating $ 200 million in sales in 1991. Shortly after making a deal for Super Soaker with Larami Corporation, Larami became a subsidiary of Hasbro Inc. in February 1995. But as an inventor, Johnson came up with another idea: to replace the water in the Super Soaker with a "toy [Nerf] toy project." In 1996, Johnson received US Pat. US5553598 A for "Pneumatic launcher for toy projectiles and the like."
Johnson found that he paid less royalties for Super Soaker and some "Nerf rows of toys, especially N-Strike and Dart Tag brands." In November 2013, Johnson was awarded nearly $ 73 million in royalties from Hasbro Inc. in arbitration. According to Hasbro, Super Soaker is approaching a $ 1 billion sale.
Personal life
Johnson lives with his wife and four children in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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- "Lonnie G. Johnson, The SuperSoaker". MIT School of Engineering. September 1998. Archived from the original on 28th May 2013 . Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
- Anderson, Jessica (March 2007). "Yes, You Can Make Million". Kiplinger Personal Finance . Archived from the original on March 1, 2007 . Retrieved April 4, 2016 . Jones, Willie D. Jones (March 2008). "Super Soaker Inventor Creates New Thermoelectric Generator". IEEE spectrum . Retrieved April 4, 2016 . Ward, Logan (October 10, 2008). "Top 10 New Innovations of World-Change This Year (With Video!)". Popular Mechanics . Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
External links
- Profile, Johnson R & amp; D
- Excellatron
- Johnson Electro-Mechanical Systems (JEMS)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEUZz5TtJ-k
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