I have seen lots of pictures of people painting cars in factories in the
pre-WW1 time period, using paint brushes. I then realized I have no
idea when spray painting was invented. Anyone know? They certainly had
air compressors by then.

Don Stauffer wrote:

I have seen lots of pictures of people painting cars in factories in the
pre-WW1 time period, using paint brushes. I then realized I have no
idea when spray painting was invented. Anyone know? They certainly had
air compressors by then.

The original description was air brush rather than spray gun and they
were in existence well before 1900.
There's plenty on the net about the subject.
Devilbiss existed pre WWI.

Tom

Tom wrote:
Don Stauffer wrote:

I have seen lots of pictures of people painting cars in factories in the
pre-WW1 time period, using paint brushes. I then realized I have no
idea when spray painting was invented. Anyone know? They certainly had
air compressors by then.

The original description was air brush rather than spray gun and they
were in existence well before 1900.
There's plenty on the net about the subject.
Devilbiss existed pre WWI.

Joseph Binks spraygun help speed the finishing of the World's Fair
at Chicago, the Columbian Exposition, to spray Whitewash over
everything
in 1893.

Other than whitwash, early paints didn't spray well, so the spraygun
was used mostly in furniture factories spraying shellac.

Post WWI, Dupont had to find some use for all that surplus gunpowder
that nobody was buying. Enter a new type of nitrocellose lacquer
that could be brightly colored

http://heritage.dupont.com/touchpoin...23/depth.shtml

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mike
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mike wrote:
Tom wrote:

Don Stauffer wrote:

I have seen lots of pictures of people painting cars in factories in the
pre-WW1 time period, using paint brushes. I then realized I have no
idea when spray painting was invented. Anyone know? They certainly had
air compressors by then.

The original description was air brush rather than spray gun and they
were in existence well before 1900.
There's plenty on the net about the subject.
Devilbiss existed pre WWI.


Joseph Binks spraygun help speed the finishing of the World's Fair
at Chicago, the Columbian Exposition, to spray Whitewash over
everything
in 1893.

Other than whitwash, early paints didn't spray well, so the spraygun
was used mostly in furniture factories spraying shellac.

Post WWI, Dupont had to find some use for all that surplus gunpowder
that nobody was buying. Enter a new type of nitrocellose lacquer
that could be brightly colored

http://heritage.dupont.com/touchpoin...23/depth.shtml

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mike
**

Thanks, guys. Yeah, I probably should have googled the term, though I
find often I get more from this group than I do from Google.

"Don Stauffer" wrote in message
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| I have seen lots of pictures of people painting cars in factories in the
| pre-WW1 time period, using paint brushes. I then realized I have no
| idea when spray painting was invented. Anyone know? They certainly had
| air compressors by then.

I seem to recall that picture, and IIRC, it was sort of a jobs program
to keep the old guys on the line occupied. Definitely not an American line,
I seem to recall it being a British thing, where jobs are more important
that your employer staying solvent.