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I invented the Super Soaker
Lonnie Johnson is an inventor from Atlanta in the USA. He helped to develop the stealth bomber and the Galileo space mission to Jupiter. But the invention he's best known for is the Super Soaker water gun. It's one of the best-selling toys of all time and made millions of dollars for Lonnie. He used the money to start a research laboratory that today is working on some very serious science. Lonnie told Matthew Bannister about his story, which begins in the segregated world of 1950s Alabama.
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