Raquel Welch was one of the earliest roller girls, or at least she played on in the Kansas City Bomber. The whole series was made so children watching the show could carry out the same experiments and on screen antics as the children in the film explains Sally Bell, Nancy Claster's daughter: The core of her curriculum was really the belief that Romper Room was for the children at home, and that everything that the children saw on television, whether it was just plain fun or educational - and a lot of Romper Room was educational - should be set up so that children at home could participate. She didn't just write segments for the show and perform in character, she taught that women who followed inter footsteps who to do their jobs. At the center of the show was 'Miss Nancy,' played by Nancy Claster. The series was franchised around the country, and featured a glut of local talent thanks to the way in which is was franchised throughout the states. In an era before actual educational programming, Romper Room had to do it all. Not just a baby sitter on the TV, the series was created as a way to make better children's television. Romper Room was one of the most important shows for young people in the groovy era. Everybody was throwing cups of water, cups of beer and it just turned into a big free-for-all.

I took it to an Air Force picnic one day and a superior officer, a major, saw it and said, 'What is that you got, Johnson?' I said, 'This is my water gun, sir.' And he said, 'It looks really strange - does it work?' So I turned to him and shot him right between the eyes. I soon found my prototype water pistol was an excellent ice-breaker at social events.

While working for the Air Force he came up with his first water pistol, and his first big test of the Super Soaker occurred at a military picnic of all places. Lonnie Johnson has played a major part in the world of American engineering: He worked on the first stealth bomber, and he built a working robot as a child, Johnson is a serious technical mind.īut he also knows how to have fun.

If you love firing off a cold blast of water on a hot day, then you have this former NASA engineer to think.

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