Papermaking in Britain 1488-1988

A Short History

Richard Leslie Hills (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2015
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-4127-4 (ISBN)

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This short history tells the story of five hundred years of papermaking against the general background of the coming of paper and printing in Britain, through the major developments of the Industrial Revolution, up to the technological advances which have made possible the enormous high-speed paper machines of the present day.

Richard Leslie Hills, MBE is an English historian and clergyman who has written extensively on the history of technology. He founded Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
1 This Paper Thynne, John Tate
2 Paper of High Grade, Papermaking Before 1500
3 The Art of Watermarking
4 A New Industry Emerges, 1500-1800
5 The Whatmans and Wove Paper
6 The Origins of Wallpaper
7 The Development of the Fourdrinier Paper Machine
8 Rival Machines for Making Paper
9 The Nineteenth Century: Demand Outstrips Rag Supplies
10 Esparto and Other Types of Pulp
11 The Paper Machine Matures
12 Watermarks on Papermachines
13 The Twentieth Century

Bibliography
Glossary
Notes Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.11.2015
Reihe/Serie	History: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	562 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Technik
ISBN-10	1-4742-4127-1 / 1474241271
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-4127-4 / 9781474241274
Zustand	Neuware