Paper Its History Sources And Manufacture

Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
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ISBN 13 : 9781330572047
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book A History of Paper-Manufacturing in the United States, 1690-1916 (Classic Reprint) written by Lyman Horace Weeks and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of Paper-Manufacturing in the United States, 1690-1916 Many books have been written concerning the purely technical sides of paper-making and much about the origin and history of the craft among the peoples of the world. Also there have been considerable accounts of special features of it in this country; descriptions of individual mills; sketches of manufacturers, inventors and scientists; considerations of the introduction and improvement of new methods, new materials and new machinery and their influence; records of organizations, and so on. All this latter, however - though wholly admirable, interesting and valuable in itself - has been of a desultory and disconnected character: mainly chapters in books, magazines and newspapers; papers read before business associations, conventions and societies; addresses and discussions in legislative bodies, and essays and treatises in scientific periodicals. This History covers the field differently. It is the only attempt that has been made to bring into one complete, compact narrative all the material facts relating to the industry and to present in an exhaustive and comprehensive manner, on the purely historical side, the annals of this f; branch of American manufacturing, from the erecting of the first little mill in Philadelphia, in 1690, to the opening years of the twentieth century. What has been done in this way for coal-mining, agriculture, many branches of manufacturing, oil production, the iron and steel industries and other American industrial activities has been here attempted for paper-making. Gathering material for this History has occupied much of the time of the author for several years past, in conjunction with research along other historical lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.