Whoosh!. Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
(2016)
By:
Barton, Chris
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2016
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (12 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781501931994 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT13521560, 1501931997 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 13521560
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by J. D. Jackson
Lonnie Johnson was always building things. As a kid he made rockets. As a teenager he built a robot from scratch. As an adult he worked for NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the Galileo orbiter and probe that studied Jupiter. And then one day, while hooking up his latest invention to the bathroom sink to test it out WHOOSH! Water shot across the room. This would make a great water gun, Lonnie thought. Meet the innovative engineer who unexpectedly invented one of the most popular toys of all timethe Super Soaker
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