Lonnie Haywood Johnson

Way Down That Lonesome Road: Lonnie Johnson in Toronto, 1965-1970 (Trade Paper)

Toronto was Lonnie Johnson's last stop in a career of stops, at least the eighth city in which he lived for any length of time. The influential African-American singer and guitarist, a formative figure in the history of blues and jazz dating back to the 1920s, travelled north for a brief appearance ...

Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions

A cool idea with a big splash You know the Super Soaker. It’s one of top twenty toys of all time. And it was invented entirely by accident. Trying to create a new cooling system for refrigerators and air conditioners, impressive inventor Lonnie Johnson instead created the mechanics for the iconic t...

Sigmund Freud: Berggasse 19, Vienna

On a wet May morning in 1938, a young photographer named Edmund Engelman was invited by a coworker of Prof. Dr. Sigmund Freud to photograph the renowned psychoanalyst's cherished winter residence at number 19, Bergasse, in Vienna's 9th district.For the first time in book form, here are the fruits of...

The Original Guitar Hero and the Power of Music: The Legendary Lonnie Johnson, Music, and Civil Rights (North Texas Lives of Musician Series)

Lonnie Johnson (18941970) was a virtuoso guitarist who influenced generations of musicians from Django Reinhardt to Eric Clapton to Bill Wyman and especially B. B. King. Born in New Orleans, he began playing violin and guitar in his father’s band at an early age. When most of his family was wiped ou...

By Lonnie Johnson: Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends Third (3rd) Edition

Introducing Austria: A Short History. (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought)

INTRODUCING AUSTRIA provides in compact form a comprehensive overview of the country's rich past and present. The first half of the book deals with Austria before 1918. Each chapter and subchapter approaches Austria's diverse, thousand-year-old heritage from a different perspective to illuminate its...

Vienna: The Past in the Present : A Historical Survey (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought)

The best access to Vienna is through its history. This chronologically organized survey of Vienna from its origins to the present does not presuppose any detailed knowledge of Central European history. Accenting cultural, political and social influences, this book covers the following period of deve...

Stefan Grossman's Early Masters of American Blues Guitar: Lonnie Johnson, Book & CD

The Early Masters of American Blues series provides the unique opportunity to study the true roots of modern blues. Stefan Grossman, noted roots-blues guitarist and musicologist, has compiled this fascinating collection of 16 songs, transcribed exactly as performed by legendary blues master Lonnie J...

Lnie Johns (inventor)

Lonnie George Johnson (born October 6, 1949 in Mobile, Alabama) is an African American inventor and engineer who holds more than 80 patents. Johnson is most known for inventing the Super Soaker water gun, which has ranked among the world's top 20 best-selling toys every year since its release.

Chris Alberts

… performances by Lil Armstrong, Alberta Hunter, Little Brother Montgomery,[7] and Earl Hines.[8] Albertson subsequently worked as producer for Prestige Records, supervising sessions by, among others, guitarist/singer Lonnie Johnson,[9] whom he had pulled from obscurity while working in Phila...

Lnie Johns (inventor)

Lonnie George Johnson (born October 6, 1949 in Mobile, Alabama) is an American engineer. Johnson invented the Super Soaker water gun, which was the top ...

Lnie Johns

Lonnie Johnson may refer to: Lonnie Johnson (musician) (1899-1970), American blues and jazz singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Lonnie Johnson (inventor) (born 1949), American inventor of the Super Soaker.