Interestingly, Johnson has long reinvested the profits from his Super Soaker sales back into his other companies, explaining to CNBC in 2010 that as an engineer: “It’s who I am, it’s what I do.”
And he hasn’t slowed down as a result of his success. One of his inventions, the Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter System, was named one of the top 10 inventions of 2009 by Popular Mechanics magazine for its ability to convert thermal energy to electricity without the use of steam generators, potentially opening up new doors in solar power plants and ocean-based thermal power generation.
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