--- title: "4 Heat Quotes By Lonnie Johnson" description: "4 Heat quotes by Lonnie Johnson. Plus more from Lonnie Johnson and more Heat sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28c/lonnie-johnson-16185_electricity_i-ve-invented-a-new-type-of-engine-that_920139.jpg" --- > [I've invented a new type of engine that converts heat directly into electricity with no moving mechanical parts. It's called the Johnson…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/i-ve-invented-a-new-type-of-engine-that-converts-heat-directly-into/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28c/lonnie-johnson-16185_electricity_i-ve-invented-a-new-type-of-engine-that_920139.jpg) > [I was working on a heat pump that used water as a working fluid, and I made some jet pumps for it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/i-was-working-on-a-heat-pump-that-used-water-as-a-working-fluid-and-i/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/380/lonnie-johnson-16185_great_i-was-working-on-a-heat-pump-that-used-w_1503401.jpg) > [Sitting still, a person produces about 100 watts of heat. What if you could use that to charge your cell phone?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/sitting-still-a-person-produces-about-100-watts-of-heat-what-if-you/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94c/lonnie-johnson-16185_cell-phone_sitting-still-a-person-produces-about-10_2247914.jpg) > [When I was at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory back in the early '80s is when I first got the idea. The Super…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/when-i-was-at-the-jet-propulsion-laboratory-back-in-the-early-80s-is/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60c/lonnie-johnson-16185_back_when-i-was-at-the-jet-propulsion-laborat_2684770.jpg) ## Other authors on Heat - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 17 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heat/william-shakespeare/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 16 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heat/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-al-gore-10150.jpg) Al Gore 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heat/al-gore/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b002/author-tyler-herro-5874.jpg) Tyler Herro 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heat/tyler-herro/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-isaac-newton-44709.jpg) Isaac Newton 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heat/isaac-newton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bobby-flay-18753.jpg) Bobby Flay 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heat/bobby-flay/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-alton-brown-11941.jpg) Alton Brown 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heat/alton-brown/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-dave-barry-27009.jpg) Dave Barry 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heat/dave-barry/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-becca-fitzpatrick-16771.jpg) Becca Fitzpatrick 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heat/becca-fitzpatrick/) ## More by Lonnie Johnson > [More and more, other countries are able to manufacture things cheaper, beating us in the marketplace in a lot of ways. So we need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/more-and-more-other-countries-are-able-to-manufacture-things-cheaper/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) > [Lady Luck is indifferent. She smiles sometimes, and she frowns sometimes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/lady-luck-is-indifferent-she-smiles-sometimes-and-she-frowns-sometimes/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) > [The invention that most people know me for is the Super Soaker water gun. I knew the gun worked well, and I knew it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/the-invention-that-most-people-know-me-for-is-the-super-soaker-water/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) > [It was because of the success of the Super Soaker, I was able to at least get an audience with people to present some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/it-was-because-of-the-success-of-the-super-soaker-i-was-able-to-at/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) > [Large companies can afford to file patents on every idea they have. Small companies, we have to weigh our options, do the research. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/large-companies-can-afford-to-file-patents-on-every-idea-they-have/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) > [I have a collection of SuperSoakers. I have managed to keep most of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/i-have-a-collection-of-supersoakers-i-have-managed-to-keep-most-of/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) > [I can remember times when we'd be having parties, and people would be dancing and everything and I would be sitting there in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/i-can-remember-times-when-we-d-be-having-parties-and-people-would-be/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) > [Being an independent inventor is tough. You develop a product, patent it, then you're looking for someone who will see the benefit from this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/being-an-independent-inventor-is-tough-you-develop-a-product-patent/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) > [I didn't want to grow old and find that I didn't do what I could have done, that I didn't put my best foot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/i-didn-t-want-to-grow-old-and-find-that-i-didn-t-do-what-i-could-have/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) > [I consider myself a general practitioner. I do electronic things. I do toys and water things, mechanical stuff. I'm very, very flexible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/i-consider-myself-a-general-practitioner-i-do-electronic-things-i-do/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) > [Peer review is fine, as long as you're making incremental improvements to a technology.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/peer-review-is-fine-as-long-as-you-re-making-incremental-improvements/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) > [I decided I could develop a toy and get some revenue from that and then use that revenue to really become an inventor and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/i-decided-i-could-develop-a-toy-and-get-some-revenue-from-that-and/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) > [I wound up getting offered a job at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory where I invented a power supply mechanism for the Galileo space…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/i-wound-up-getting-offered-a-job-at-the-nasa-jet-propulsion/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) > [I've invented a new type of engine that converts heat directly into electricity with no moving mechanical parts. It's called the Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/i-ve-invented-a-new-type-of-engine-that-converts-heat-directly-into/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) > [Especially when you have a lot of technology you're developing as a small company, trying to protect that technology is a real problem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-johnson/especially-when-you-have-a-lot-of-technology-you-re-developing-as-a/) [Lonnie Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-johnson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heat/lonnie-johnson/#itemlist", "name": "4 Heat Quotes By Lonnie Johnson", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I've invented a new type of engine that converts heat directly into electricity with no moving mechanical parts. 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