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Posted on January 26, 2024
Susan Nicholson
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Dr. Lonnie Johnson Welcomes Lanny Smoot Into National Inventors Hall of Fame

JTEC Energy founder Dr. Lonnie Johnson welcomed fellow Black inventor Lanny Smoot into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in January. Walt Disney Imagineer Lanny Smoot Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame Story by Lila Brown for the LA Sentinel. Lanny Smoot in his workshop at The Walt Disney Company. (National Inventors Hall of […]

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Posted on February 8, 2022February 10, 2022
Susan Nicholson
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The Super Soaker was Invented by a NASA Nuclear Engineer Working on His Hobby in the Bathroom

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 […]

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