By Zach Armstrong for Atlanta Inno – read full article here. JTEC Energy Inc. Founder Lonnie Johnson, left, and President and CEO Michael McQuary. Photo: Byron E. Small Lonnie Johnson, former NASA engineer and inventor of the Super Soaker children’s toy, is one step closer to commercializing a new source of renewable energy. Johnson […]
Karen Lorre interviews JTEC founder Dr. Lonnie Johnson and CEO Mike McQuary for her “Stories We Love” Podcast.
Article by Neal Augenstein for WTOP News. Read original article here. Super Soaker inventor: ‘Put it on the table and let it stand on its merit’ It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why generations love the Super Soaker line of water guns. “I’ve been accused of being a rocket scientist,” laughs Lonnie […]
By Dora Mekouar for Voice of America. The folding chair, gas mask, traffic signal, automatic elevator doors, potato chips and the Super Soaker childrens’s water gun toy were all invented by Black innovators. From the three-light traffic signal, refrigerated trucks, automatic elevator doors, color monitors for desktop computers, to the shape of the modern […]
Dr. Johnson, the SuperSoaker, and his work at JTEC Energy and JES were featured on Fox & Friends on Feb. 18, 2022: Watch the latest video at foxnews.com
Atlanta Magazine’s Feb. 10, 2022 issue lists “Atlanta’s 500 Most Powerful Leaders in 2022,” and includes Dr. Johnson in its list of Legends. Read the full article here. Legends Lonnie G. Johnson Johnson earned his master’s degree in nuclear engineering from Tuskegee University and went on to work for the U.S. Air Force and the NASA […]
Excerpted from an article by Michelle Dillon for the Jacksonville Progress 2/13/22. Read the full article here. People enjoy their pastimes and many of those pastimes include fun and games. In this installment of our series about inventions by Black Americans, we’ll review a few contributions that make leisure time more enjoyable. For many children, […]
Excerpted from an article by Monica Cull in Discover Magazine 2/8/22. Read the full article here. Lonnie Johnson NASA engineer and inventor Lonnie Johnson is the father of some of our favorite toys, plus dozens of other patents. All of you ’90s kids who grew up playing with Nerf guns and Super Soakers have Johnson to […]
The National Inventors Hall of Fame honors JTEC Energy founder Dr. Lonnie Johnson:
Article by Rain Noe for Core77.com published 2/8/22 In 1982, nuclear engineer Lonnie Johnson was working for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. During the day, he was figuring out how to power the Galileo spacecraft; at night he was working on a hobby project, developing an environmentally-friendly, Freon-free heat pump. For the heat pump experiments, Johnson […]