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During the 1990s, before kids were playing Need for Speed and Call of Duty on their Playstations, there was the Super Soaker water gun.
Super Soaker was a particularly epic invention for children everywhere that rendered traditional pistol water guns that piddled out a thin stream of water obsolete, has just earned it a place in the Toy Hall of Fame.
Its creator, Lonnie Johnson, an African-American scientist and entrepreneur with a uniquely excellent knowledge of fluid dynamics, invented the trademark pressure pump that allowed Super Soakers to spray water dozens of feet at never-before-seen volumes.