That changed 20 years ago when inventor and NASA scientist Lonnie Johnson came up with a way to use hand-pumped air pressure to power a water-gun blast. His Super Soaker would forever alter the ...

Super Soaker this year is giving props to its roots with a retro model emulating the original Super Soaker 50 -- with a few ... Its patented air-pressure technology allowed pesky snipers to ...

And now, inventor of the Super Soaker, Lonnie Johnson, an aerospace engineer, appeared on The Early Show Thursday to discuss his patented pressure blaster ... Super Soaker 50 that could allegedly ...

Another patent in 1991 would become the Super Soaker. A 1992 patent described further improvements to the design using air pressure instead of water pressure. Earlier versions include a water tank ...

Now, Hasbro’s bringing back three of the original Super Soakers with that initial air-pressure system — and ... For instance, the new Super Soaker 30 looks like it’s got a heftier forward ...

Introducing the Guinness World Record for the largest Super Soaker ever, which sizes up ... Article continues below But instead of using air pressure to propel the watery ammunition, high pressure ...

But squirt guns got a major upgrade in the 1990s when the Super Soaker was introduced by Larami ... gun out of Plexiglas with room for an air pressure chamber and water reservoir inside.

Every time you pump a traditional Super Soaker, the air pressure within the water tank increases. The pressurized air pushes down on the water so hard that when the trigger is pulled, the water ...

More than 200 million Super ... pressure and shoot water up to 50 feet. However, it didn’t start flying off store shelves until a marketing overhaul, which included a name change to the Super ...

This increases the air pressure inside ... The original Super Soaker developed by Johnson was pressurized to 40 pounds per square inch (275 kilopascals); a regular hose is 50 psi (350 kPa ...

The Super Soaker has been inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in Rochester, N.Y. Super Soaker inventor Lonnie Johnson in 1998 wields a pair of guns from his popular Super Soaker brand ...

The pressure produced by this aqua beast is enormous: The original Super Soaker developed by Johnson was pressurized to 40 pounds per square inch (275 kilopascals); a regular hose is 50 psi (350 ...