Talk:Lonnie Johnson (inventor)

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Notability[edit]

While the article does read like an advertisement, like the inventor himself wrote it, I can say that there shouldn't be much of a question about the notobility...as the Super Soaker is arguable the most famous water gun ever created, and one of the most popular toys period..and Lonnie is it's creator. The a good article can be written skimming the most pertainent facts from what is given, and a few citations.

Siamus 16:59, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok 172.84.229.43 (talk) 20:30, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. He is worth having a Wiki page, but this is not it (it's the worst page I have seen). A complete rewrite, perhaps 1/4 the size of the current page, is needed. The honors listed may be relevant, but could be easily reduced to a simple chronological list, without all of the embellishments.

Approximately half of the article was a copy/paste job from http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/johnson.html. I removed the offending material and tidied up the article. I agree that it's notable enough to merit an article. Andrew Spinner 14:54, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Edited last paragraph - removed duplicate sentences (minor edit). Trip six 22:24, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

 was worth 360 million dollars

some people took his idea and made lots of money off of it .? [[]] slow%20clap%20stupid%20try%20to%20be%20like%20someone%20else%20and%20steal%20ideas%7Cframe%7Cdon%27t%20steal%20someones%20ideaItalic text — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.5.248.91 (talk) 15:30, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Page needs a photograph[edit]

The section's headline speaks for itself. 63.3.9.1 (talk) 02:26, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

articles[edit]

Shooting for the Sun —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.237.132.208 (talk) 01:20, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Black Scholars Index | Celebrating Black Scholarship

7 Questions for Super Soaker Inventor Lonnie Johnson

Some Patents[edit]

[1]
#4,143,267, 3/6/1979, Digital distance measuring instrument
#4,181,843, 1/1/1980, Variable resistance type sensor controlled switch
#4,211,362, 8/8/1980, Smoke detecting timer controlled thermostat
#4,253,606, 3/3/1981, Automatic sprinkler control
#4,476,693, 10/16/1984, Thermal energy accumulation
#4,509,361, 4/9/1985, Soil moisture potential determination by weight measurement
#4,591,071, 5/27/1986, Squirt gun
#4,724,683, 2/16/1988, Johnson tube, a thermodynamic heat pump
#4,757,946, 7/19/1988, Flow actuated pulsator
#5,074,437, 12/14/1991, Super Soaker ®
#5,150,819, 9/29/1992, Double tank pinch trigger pump water gun
#5,197,452, 3/30/1993, Liquid jet propelled transporter and launcher toy
#5,238,149, 8/24/1993, Pinch trigger hand pump water gun with multiple tanks
#5,266,928, 11/30/1993, Wet diaper detector
#D 342,551, 12/21/1993, Combined aerodynamic glider and launcher
#5,292,032, 3/8/1994, Pinch trigger water gun with rearwardly mounted hand pump
#5,299,367, 4/5/1994, Hair drying curler apparatus
#5,305,919, 4/26/1994, Pinch trigger hand pump water gun with non-detachable tank
#5,322,191, 6/21/1994, Water arrow projecting bowLow pressure, high volume pressurized water gun
#5,332,120, 7/26/1994, Water arrow projecting bow
#5,381,778, 1/17/1995, Pressurized toy rocket with rapid action release mechanism
#5,395,275, 3/7/1995, Toy airplane and launcher
#5,398,873, 3/21/1995, Fluid pulsator with accumulator for frequency control
#5,407,375, 4/18/1995, Toy rocket with velocity dependent chute release
#5,415,153, 5/16/1995, Pressurized air/water rocket and launcher
#5,499,940, 3/19/1996, Fluid powering and launching system for a toy vehicle
#5,538,453, 7/23/1996, Air pressure toy rocket launcher
#5,541,464, 7/30/1996 Thermionic generator
#5,469,145, 11/21/1995, Wet diaper detector
#5,549,497, 8/27/1996, Toy rocket with velocity dependent chute release
#5,553,598, 9/10/1996, Pneumatic launcher for a toy projectile and the like
#5,586,688, 12/24/1996, Electric pump toy water gun
#5,592,931, 1/14/1997, Compressed air gun with magazine indexer
#5,596,978, 1/28/1997, Rapid fire compressed air gun
#5,626,123, 5/6/1997, Compressed air gun
#5,653,216, 8/5/1997, Toy rocket launcher
#5,699,781, 12/23/1997, Rapid fire compressed air gun
#5,701,879, 12/30/1997, Compressed air gun with single action pump
#5,707,270, 1/13/1998, System for detonating a percussion cap in a toy projectile
#5,709,199, 1/20/1998, Rapid fire compressed air gun
#5,711,324, 1/27/1998, Hair drying curler apparatus
#5,724,955, 3/10/1998, Voice activated compressed air toy gun —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.237.132.208 (talk) 02:17, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

New article[edit]

I thought some of the more active contributors might wish to use this article I came across amongst my coffee break surfing: "Who Made That Super-Soaker?" - Jack Sebastian (talk) 15:35, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Law firm?[edit]

I find it hard to believe a non-lawyer started his own law firm. Perhaps he started his own company to license the Super Soaker? 75.39.104.191 (talk) 17:55, 16 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup in career section[edit]

The career section shouldn't be listed like a CV, nor should it have sentences that are mostly quotation. I'll try to come back and fix this over the weekend. ChunyangD (talk) 05:15, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 23:55, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline[edit]

What is Lonnie Johnson timeline 172.72.20.45 (talk) 20:49, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]