A Chronology of Paper and Paper-makingJ. Munsell, 1857 - 110 pagina's |
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amount Angoumois Ballston Spa Banana paper bark bleaching Britain and Ireland Carduus nutans cents a pound century colors Columbia county consumed cotton paper cylinder Didot employed engines erected Essonne estimated export of paper facture fibres Fourdrinier machine France Germany hemp Holland import of rags invention Italy John John Tate lime linen paper linen rags London machinery manu manufac manufacture of paper manufacturing paper Mass material Messrs mill millions mode of manufacturing number of paper-mills obtained a patent paper annually paper manufactured paper-machine paper-makers paper-mills paper-pulp papyrus parchment Paris pasteboard patent in England patented a mode patented an improvement pounds of rags pounds were exported producing paper pulp quantity of paper quantity of rags reams of paper rollers Scotland shavings sheets Spain specimens of paper stalks substances tree ture United States imported vat-mills vats washed wood workmen worth of paper writing paper Xativa York Zollverein
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Pagina 35 - ... Historical Account of the substances which have been used to describe events, and to convey ideas from the Earliest date to the invention of paper.
Pagina 54 - Hertford, paper manufacturer, for his having invented a new improvement in the method of manufacturing paper by machinery, and also a new method of cutting paper, and other material into single sheets or pieces, by means of machinery.
Pagina 28 - By the pen and press such knowledge is displayed, As wouldn't exist, if paper was not made. Wisdom of things, mysterious, divine, Illustriously doth on paper shine.
Pagina 43 - Dr. Colquhoun estimated the value of paper annually produced in Great Britain at 2,000,000/. ; but Mr. Stevenson, an incomparably better authority upon such subjects, estimated it at only half this sum. From information obtained from those engaged in the trade, we incline to think that the total annual value of the paper manufacture in the United Kingdom, exclusive of the duty, may at present amount to about 1,200,000/.
Pagina 25 - Directions of my former Advertisement for gathering Rags, and hope they will Continue the like Method, having received upwards of Seven Thousand Weight already. " For the pleasing Entertainment of the Polite part of Mankind, I have Printed the most beautiful Poems of Mr. Stephen Duck, the famous Wiltshire Poet. It is a full Demonstration to me, that the People of...
Pagina 18 - And John Tate the yonger Joye mote he broke Whiche late hathe in Englond doo make this paper thynne That now in our englyssh this boke is prynted Inne.
Pagina 69 - Ure, in his Dictionary of Arts and Manufactures, observes that, "nothing can place the advantage of the Fourdrinier machine in a stronger point of view than the fact of there being 280 of them now at work in the United Kingdom, making collectively 1600 miles of paper, of from 4 to 5 feet broad, every day; that they have lowered the price of paper 50 per cent., and that they have increased the revenue, directly and indirectly, by a sum of probably 400,000/. per annum. Mech- Ma«ííMode of Dowelling...
Pagina 13 - The books we read every day," says he, in his Treatise against the Jews, 'are made of sheep, goat, or calf skin; or of Oriental plants, that is, the papyrus of Egypt; or of rags:
Pagina 42 - ... the mills in New England have two vats each. Some in New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, have three or more — those with two vats can make, of various descriptions of paper, from 2,000 to 3,000 reams per annum. A mill with two vats requires a capital of about 10,000 dollars, and employs twelve or more persons, consisting of men, boys and girls. Collecting rags, making paper, &c., may be said to give employment to not less than 2,500 persons in the United States.
Pagina 2 - On the first layer of these slips a second one was placed crosswise, so as to form a sheet of convenient thickness, which after being pressed and dried in the sun was polished with a shell or other hard and smooth substance. Twenty sheets was the most that could be separated from one stalk, and those nearest the pith made the finest paper.