Inventions in the centuryDoolittle, William H. (William Henry)
History
Inventions in the century
Doolittle, William H. (William Henry)
Inventions
Paper-making Preceded the Art of Printing.--The Wasp Preceded
Man.--The Chinese, the Hindoos, Egyptians, and other Orientals
had Invented Both Arts.--History of Papyrus.--Parchment.--
Twelfth Century Documents Written on Linen Paper still
Extant.--Water Marks.--Wall Paper, Substitute for Tapestry,
1640.--Holland in Advance, Seventeenth Century.--Rittenhouse
of Holland Introduces Paper-Making in America, Eighteenth
Century.--Paper a Dear Commodity.--The Revolution of the
Nineteenth Century.--400 Different Materials now Used.--
Nineteenth Century Opens with Robert’s Paper-Making Machine.--
Messrs. Fourdrinier.--Immense Growth of their System.--Modern
Discoveries of Chemists.--Soda Pulp and Sulphite Processes.--
Paper Mills.--Paper Bag Machines, etc.--Printing.--Chinese
Invented Both Block and Movable Types.--European Inventors.--
The Claims of Different Nations.--From Southern Italy to
Sweden.--Spread of the Art.--Printing Press and the
Reformation.--First Printing Press in New World Set up in
Mexico, 1536.--Then in Brazil.--Then in 1639 in
Massachusetts.--Types and Presses.--English and American.--
Ramage and Franklin.--Blaew of Amsterdam.--Nineteenth Century
Opens with Earl of Stanhope’s Hand Press.--Clymer of
Philadelphia, 1817.--The First Machine Presses.--Nicholson in
Eighteenth.--Konig and Bauer in Nineteenth Century, 1813.--
London Times, 1814.--1815, Cowper’s Electrotype plates.--1822,
First Power Press in United States.--Treadwell.--Bruce’s Type
Casting Machines.--Hoe’s Presses.--John Walter’s.--German and
American Presses.--Capacities of Modern Presses.--Mail
Marking.--Typewriting.--Suggested in Eighteenth Century.--
Revived by French in 1840.--Leading Features Invented in
U. S., 1857.--Electro-Magnet Typewriters.--Cahill.--
Book-binding.--Review of the Art.--Linotype “Most Remarkable
Machine of Century.”--Merganthaler.--Rogers.--Progress and
Triumphs of the Art. 273
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