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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.
	
	