Barton shows the tenacity and dedication (and, sometimes, plain good timing) needed to prove ideas. However, the high-powered water gun was not an instant success.
While testing out a new cooling method for refrigerators, Johnson accidentally sprayed his entire bathroom, and the idea was born. But nothing is as memorable in the minds of kids as his most famous invention (to date): the Super-Soaker. Oops.) As an adult he worked for NASA and helped to power the spacecraft Galileo as it explored Jupiter. (He even made the rocket’s fuel, which once caught fire in the kitchen. As a kid, he built rockets and launched them in the park amid a crowd of friends. Lonnie Johnson always tinkered with something. ♦ A tinkering African-American boy grows up to become the inventor of a very popular toy.
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