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 ...

Now, Hasbro’s bringing back three of the original Super Soakers with that initial pressured-air system, dubbed the XP20, XP30, and XP100. Where’s the Super Soaker 50, though? Skip to main content ...

Happy birthday, Super Soaker: Mother of all squirt guns turns 20. Published: Jul. 06, 2009, 8:57 a.m. By . Aaron Ogg | The Grand Rapids Press; Grand Rapids Press File Photo ...

But squirt guns got a major upgrade in the 1990s when the Super Soaker was ... you pumped air into the pressure ... the original Power Drencher became the “Super Soaker 50,” and was just ...

The Pressure Water Blaster That Left All Others Washed Up Has Anniversary. ... The first Super Soaker to be released was the Super Soaker 50 that could allegedly shoot 50 feet.

An updated patent, in 1992, described improvements to the design using air pressure instead of water pressure. Johnson got his first water gun patent in 1986. Another patent in 1991 would become ...

Since then, the Super Soaker has become synonymous with the water gun, and it has evolved into a huge array of models.The Super Soaker also moved from its original air pressure system, which only ...

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 ...

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 ...