Lonnie Johnson: I'm Lonnie Johnson. I'm an inventor. The invention that most people know me for is the Super Soaker water gun. I knew the gun worked well, and I knew it would be successful.

Every kid knows it today as the Super Soaker. It marked a quantum leap forward in water guns. This gun shoots a dousing stream 30 feet or more. The Super Soaker also racked up more than $1 billion ...

The employee, Kiki Lin, 34, refused the man. Police will allege that he then demanded cash before producing a super-soaker disguised in a laptop bag. He then sprayed Ms Lin in her eyes with a ...

In the early 1990s, he convinced the company that was developing the first Super Soaker water guns to grant him the license to make a miniature, fully working, version, and put it on a keychain.