![]() ![]() ![]() Hasbro also used Johnson’s propulsion technology in its Nerf toy gun line. Sales of the Super Soaker have reportedly reached $1 billion. He eventually licensed it to Larami Corporation, later acquired by toy giant Hasbro, which turned the idea into the hit toy. In the 1980’s, while working on a new type of water-based heat pump in his spare time, Johnson stumbled across water stream technology that he thought would make a fun water gun. ![]() He’s now working on a safer and better performing battery that, if successful, could create a new way to store energy for mobile devices, off-grid oil fields, and electric cars. Inventor Lonnie Johnson, a nuclear engineer by training, has spent decades developing new technologies like an advanced heat engine and nuclear power for space craft while he was at NASA. The proceeds of the massively successful water toy have been helping a new type of battery get to market. ![]()
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