Inventor

William N Sullivan

Patents indexed

Year range

1943

Associated with

Years active

1943

Total patents

Most recent

1943

Frequent collaborator

Lyle D Goodhue

Domains

consumer_electronicsmechanicalmaterials

Activity by decade

1940s

Patents

Career timeline

1 patents, in 1943

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How the First Aerosol Spray Can Works

A 1941 invention by Lyle Goodhue and William Sullivan that created the modern aerosol spray can by using a liquefied gas to propel liquid contents.

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