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	1900s: Carl Akeley develops method for spraying plaster onto wire frames. 
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	1910: First Cement Gun introduced at New York Concrete Show. 
 
  
 
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	1911: Patents and trademarks issued for the Cement Gun and its Gunite process. 
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	1913: Cement Gun used to seal walls on the Panama Canal.
 
 