# hairspray

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 22, 2001, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hairspray/58987 "2001-03-22T12:09:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![brylkream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@brylkream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brylkream)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2001, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hairspray/58987/1 "2001-03-22T12:09:58Z")

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When was hairspray invented?

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2001, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hairspray/58987/2 "2001-03-22T15:57:29Z")

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Here’s a start: the mechanics of the aerosol can. [http://www.inventors.about.com/science/inventors/library/inventors/blbeauty.htm](http://www.inventors.about.com/science/inventors/library/inventors/blbeauty.htm)

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> The concept of an aerosol originated as early as 1790, when self pressurized carbonated beverages were introduced in France. In 1837, an early soda siphon incorporating a valve was invented by a man called Perpigna. In 1899, inventors Helbling and Pertsch patented aerosols pressurized using methyl and ethyl chloride as propellants. On November 23rd, 1927, Erik Rotheim of Norway patented the first aerosol can and valve that could hold and dispense products and propellant systems. This was the forerunner of the modern aerosol can and valve. During World War II the US government funded research into a portable way for service men to spray malaria carrying bugs, and the modern aerosol can was created. Two Department of Agriculture researchers, Lyle David Goodhue and W. N. Sullivan, developed a small aerosol can pressurized by a liquefied gas (a fluorocarbon) in 1943. It was their design that made products like hair spray possible, along with the work of one other inventor named Robert H. Abplanal. In 1953 Abplanal invented a crimp-on valve “for dispensing gases under pressure.” This put the manufacture of aerosol spray can products into high gear as Abplanal had created the first clog-free valve for spray cans. Abplanal also invented the “Aquasol” or “pump spray” which uses water-soluble hydrocarbons as propellants.

But when was Brill Cream invented? 😉