Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-01-26
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Tue ScontineSS OF the supply OF meet
creasing demand for paper. send you little chro-
nology on theaeu6ject, from work in press, ar
hanged in this wise embracing history statistics,
patents discoveries, and everything else connected
with the subject, to which date can be affixed:
136O.-Ulman Stromer began to write at Nurenl-
berg the first work ever published paper making.
164O.-The manufacture of paper-hangings was
begun about this time substitute for the ancient
hangings of tapestry or cloth they reached q high
state of beauty and perfection.
1646.-Athanasus Krcher, Jesuit of the seven
teenth century, boosted of having paper, among
other things, made of asbestos.
1716.-Jnhn Bagford, the most extraordinary con-
nosseur of paper ever known, died in England. 1t
was said of him that he could tell at first sight the
place where and the time when any paper was made.
He prepared materials for history of paper-making,
which are now in the British Museum numbered
1881 to 5,688.
1719.-Reaumur, in an essay published at this
time, seems to have been the first author who per-
ceived that paper might be produced from wood and
suggested that some one having the opportunity
should make the experiment.
1734-Seba, Flemish writer on natural history
called attention to the fact that his country does
not seem to want trees fit for making paper people
would give themselves the necessary trouble and
pense Alga marina, which is composed of long,
strong vscous flaments, might it not be proper for
this purpose, as well as the mats of Muscovy ifthey
were prepared as the Japonese accustomed to do
l75l-Many suitable vegetables had been discov-
to paper substitute for rags, but none were
ricd into effect until now, when NJ. Guettard, in
Franco, published his experiments, and communca-
ted new specimens of paper made from the bark,
leaves, wood, &C., of different plants shrubs and
trees.
1756-The first attempt to manufacture paper of
| straw, which was made in Germany was induced
by the scarcity of rags. A treatise printed on
the subject giving plan for reducing all vegetables
into pulp. and bleaching the same.
l764-Schoeffer, of Ratsbonne, published work,
IN octave upon the different sorts of paper which he
could make without the of rags, giving speci-
mems, among which were the cotton du peupier, hor
| nets nest, saw dust, moss, beech, willow, aspen,
mulberry, clematite, and pine also hop vines, the
Feelings of grape vines, hemp, the leaves of aoes,
and lily OF the valley also arroche, mothwort, mas
Sc deau, barley straw cabbage stumps, thistle, bur-
DOCK conferva, wheat straw, broomcorn and Bavari-
| an peat.
l774-Scheele discovered gas, which is now
known as chlorine, which, in combination with line,
came to be employed in bleaching paper stuff to a
| very great extent.
1776.-A volume was printed in France upon a
whitish paper made from the bark of the linden (bas
swood) at the end Of which were some twenty spec-
mems OF paper, made from as many different kinds
OF vegetables But the poor quality of the fabrics,
and the cost of producing them, to have dis
| couraged the inventors.
17S5.-The works of the Marquis de Viette were
printed in London paper made of marsh. lnalow.
At the end are specimens in single leaves of paper
made OF the ncttle hops, moss reed three species
OF conferva, couch grass, spindle trees, wayfaring
tree, elm, lime, yellow willow, sallow willow, poplar,
oak, burdock, coldsfoot and thistle. These expert
mcnts were made at Burgess. They served to show
that paper could be made OF multitude of articles;
but the difficulties not overcome which still
exist of preparing substance econc mical than
| linen and cotton.
l794.-A paper mill was built at Fairhaven, VT,
by Col. Lyon at which paper for wrapping was
| made from the bark of Eastwood.
l60O.-The Marquis of Salisbury presented to the
King of England a book printed upon paper manu-
featured of straw, which treated of the manner in
which the ancients employed different materials to
perpetuate the remembrance of events before the in
venton of paper.
1904 successful experiment was made in Eng
land by Matthias Hoops, by which Koreans of clean
and white paper was turned out weekly from old,
waste, and written and printed paper alone, which
had previously been thrown away.
1SO1.-Matthias Hoops succeeded in making the
most perfect paper from straw, wood and other vege
tables, without the addition of any other known pa
per stuff. He obtained patent for rode of manu-
featuring pape from straw, hay, thstles waste and
refuse hemp and fax and different kinds of wood
and bark, tit for printing and almost all other pur
poses for which paper is issued.
1sO2.-Burgcss Allison and John Hawkins obtain
ed patent ut Washington for making paper of the
husks of Indian Corn.
1S02.-Lozanna offered to the Society of Agricul-
ture at Turin, number of specimens Of paper made
of the savaua ervenss the carduus nutans, and the
bark of the erigerone of Canada
1S04.-It was about this time the (so-caled) rice
paper of the Chinese used for artificial flowers was
introduced into England
1806.-Francs Guy, of Baltimore, obtained a
patent for paper floor carpets which he claimed were
equal to canvas floor cloths, much more beautiful,
and fifty per cent, cheaper.
lSl2.-Gabrel Desetable, of Caen, in France, pre-
sentcd specimens OF paper mode from straw, by
means Of an instrument said to be so simple that
any person who pleased could make paper equal to
the most practicable workmen.
l8l8.-The Prince of Wales Island Gazette was
printed on paper which said to have been made
from rice; by which was probably meant rice-straw.
1894 patent was granted for five years. by
the government of Denmark, to the inventor of a
mode of making paper from seaweed, which was
claimed to be whittier and stronger than the paper in
common use, and cheaper
1825.-WiIliam Van Houten, Hollander, took
out patent in England for a mode of manufactur-
ing paper of moss. The same year Louis Lambert,
Frenchman, obtained a patent in England for i'm
provements IN the material and manufacture of pa
per- His operations seem to have been made with
straw.
1S25.-Specimens of bleached and unbeached
writing paper were exhibited in Boston which were
manufactured in England from pine shavings. The
fabric pronounced firmer than any manufactur.
ed from the ordinary materials.
The enumeration of patents and experiments since
this time becomes tedious. But still without
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