Lonnie Johnson, one of the best toy inventors, was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1949. Growing up, he loved1things like his father did around the house. That helped him later to be a(n)2. Lonnie said, "My parents' support(支持)was a big3. I played with rockets when I was a kid. One day I was making some rocket fuel(燃料)in the kitchen.4it started to burn(燃烧)and soon the whole house seemed in5. After that my parents said6but ‘do that kind of thing outside'. They were really7. They bought me a lot of toys and things, knowing the first thing I would do was take8apart."
At the all-black Williamson High School in Mobile, Lonnie was9as a boy of unusual talent. A(n)10moment in his life came in 1968 when he represented(代表)his high school at a science fair organized by the University of Alabama.11the only black student, he won first prize for "Linex", a robot he had12out of waste.
Lonnie13the Super Soaker water gun. It later became a great14. Within only the first two years on the market, the Super Soaker became the number one selling15in the USA.
