Big Picture Science – Better Mousetrap: Lonnie Johnson

by Gary Niederhoff on June 4, 2012

Part 1 of Better Mousetrap, featuring Lonnie Johnson, inventor and former NASA engineer; CEO of Johnson Research and Development Company, on how he became the inventor of such things as the super soaker, the Johnson thermo electric energy converter, and the musical diaper.
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