stackyFACTSLong before stainless steel and modern plastics, people were still finding creative ways to squirt things. The ancient Romans utilized early piston-like devices made of bronze to precisely deliver thick medicinal pastes. The core technology of pushing a plunger in a tube hasn't significantly evolved in two millennia.
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