The journal of Joshua Gilpin, 1809
Subtitle: pleasure and business in western Pennsylvania
By: Joseph E. Walker, editor.
Contributors: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Publisher: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Harrisburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Gilpin, Joshua.; Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Description and travel.; Washington County (Pa.) -- Description and travel.; Indiana County (Pa.) -- Description and travel.
Other titles: Pleasure and business in western Pennsylvania.
Description: Joshua Gilpin (1765-1841) was an American merchant and manufacturer who toured industrial Britain at the very end of the eighteenth century. On his return home (in 1801), he introduced to America the technique of chemically bleaching paper-stuff in 1804 and following his second trip, 1811-1815, his brother, Thomas Gilpin, jr, manufactured in 1817 the first paper-making machine in America.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 153-56.