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It turned painting from a brushstroke meditation into a five-minute splatter heist.
means A handheld device that uses pressurized air or fluid to disperse paint, water, or other liquids in a fine mist or spray.
from A plain compound of "spray" and "gun." "Spray" traces back through Middle English to a Germanic root meaning to scatter or sprinkle (a cousin of Dutch and Low German words for drizzle and spindrift). "Gun" lent its name because the tool is held, aimed, and triggered like a firearm — a metaphor that stuck to all sorts of pressurized dispensers. The spray gun proper arrived with industrial air-compression technology, roughly around the turn of the 20th century, when atomized paint replaced the patient bristle.
- first sprayer
- Invented around 1887 to coat dental fillings
- car factories
- Cut auto painting from days to hours
- atomization
- Air shatters paint into millions of droplets
- airless models
- Push fluid through tips at 3000 psi
- graffiti debt
- Aerosol cans descended from this pressurized idea
hvlp spray gun — high volume low pressure technology used in automotive painting since the 1980s, standard in professional body shops
airless paint sprayer — graco and wagner brands dominate the $500-5000 market for residential wall painting and large surface coverage
powder coating gun — electrostatic spray system used in manufacturing from furniture to automotive parts, applying dry powder that's baked on