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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) –
More than 27 million $10 Super Soakers were sold in the first three years after Larami Corp. began producing them in 1990. The high-powered water blaster was the invention of Dr. Lonnie Johnson, a nuclear engineer who got the idea from a pressurized heat pump he was designing for NASA’s Galileo Mission to Jupiter, according to The Strong.
He made the first one from PVC pipe and an empty soda bottle. 
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