Category: History - Other

The story of paper-making

Full of dignity, significance, and truth is the noble conception which finds expression in Tennyson’s verse, that we are the heirs of the ages, the inheritors of all that has gone before us.

Chapters

5. CHAPTER V

Though the steady march of progress and invention has given to the modern paper-maker marvelous machines by which the output is increased a thousand-fold over that of the old, s...

3. CHAPTER III

To the Chinese is now generally conceded the discovery of the art of making paper, of the sort familiar to us, from fibrous matter reduced to a pulp. According to the old saying...

6. CHAPTER VI

Though the water-mark in a sheet of paper may at first thought seem a comparatively unimportant detail, the story of water-marks and the part they have played in momentous trans...

1. CHAPTER I

Full of dignity, significance, and truth is the noble conception which finds expression in Tennyson’s verse, that we are the heirs of the ages, the inheritors of all that has go...

9. Book 2,650,000

News 4,856,000 Wrapping 3,617,000 Boards 3,230,000 Miscellaneous, including varieties too numerous to mention 1,707,000 Ground wood and chemical wood pulp 10,966,000

2. CHAPTER II

The graceful water-plant whose plumy, drooping heads were swayed by the breezes that ruffled the waters of the Nile was one of the most useful plants known to Egypt, in whose co...

4. CHAPTER IV

“As far as the East is from the West,” so great is the difference between the methods and processes of the slow-going Orient and those that prevail in the Occident.

8. CHAPTER VII

The century just past has witnessed a marvelous growth in the paper industry. As a seedling oak, first struggling for root-hold and then pushing its way steadily upward through...

7. Letter 8 × 10

Flat cap 14 × 17 Crown cap 15 × 19 Demy 16 × 21 Folio post 17 × 22 Double cap 17 × 28 Medium 18 × 23 Royal 19 × 24 Super royal 20 × 28 Double demy 21 × 32 Double folio 22 × 34 D...