A nail gun, also called a nailgun or nailer, is a form of hammer that drives nails into wood or other material, and it has largely replaced the hand hammer as builders' tool of choice. It can be powered by compressed air, electromagnetism, a flammable gas such as butane or propane, or, in powder-actuated models, a small explosive charge. The tool was designed by the civil engineer Morris Pynoos for his work on Howard Hughes's wooden-hulled Hughes H-4 Hercules, the Spruce Goose, whose fuselage was nailed together and glued before the nails were removed. The first air-powered nail gun reached the market in 1950 to speed the construction of housing floor sheathing and sub-floors; using it, an operator working standing up could drive forty to sixty nails a minute from a magazine holding four hundred to six hundred nails.
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Introduced When (Circa)1950 (first pneumatic nail gun introduced to market) 1 OriginThe nail gun was designed by Morris Pynoos, a civil engineer by training, drawing on his work on Howard Hughes's Hughes H-4 Hercules (the Spruce Goose); the first pneumatic nail gun reached the market in 1950 to speed housing floor sheathing and sub-floor construction. 1 Introduced era (class) In the Other Atlases
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1. Nail Gun (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHistory section, 1950 market introduction sentence
The first nail gun used air pressure and was introduced to the market in 1950 to speed the construction of housing floor sheathing and sub-floors.
History section, designer sentence
The nail gun was designed by Morris Pynoos, a civil engineer by training, for his work on Howard Hughes' Hughes H-4 Hercules (known as the Spruce Goose).
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