02/10/2022
This week in black history
If you’re an 80s/ 90s baby then you know this made summers 🔥 thanks to Lonnie Johnson.
They have evolved since then.
The engineer developed this mega water gun in his free time while working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. And once the toy, dubbed the Super Soaker, hit shelves in 1990 its popularity skyrocketed. In 2017, Forbes reported that it had earned over $1 billion in retail sales.