November 20, 1948

• May 10, 1980 patented first battery-powered automatic water gun
• Used by: Larami, LJN Entertech, Tyco, Mattel, Buddy L, Coleco, Playtime and Blue Box toys
• Sept 8, 1986 article he said “Because of the war in Vietnam, no one was buying toy guns, Now, Rambo and Bambo and suddenly it’s okay.. I don’t like guns either. But I’ve never known anything that could make money this fast”
• 1994 – invented, a voice-activated, multidirectional water-spouting headset

https://patents.google.com/patent/US4022350

“Because of the war in Vietnam, no one was buying toy guns, Now, Rambo and Bambo and suddenly it’s okay.. I don’t like guns either. But I’ve never known anything that could make money this fast”