MILESTONES IN PAPERMAKING

105 Invention of Paper

1439 The Gutenberg Press

1660 The Hollander Beater

1720 Mill Water Wheel Power

1795 Paper Mill Wages

1799 First Continuous Former

1805 Early American Paper Machine

1809 First Paper Making Cylinder Machine

1816 100 year Paper Trail

1820 Papermaking Machine

1840 Early Fourdrinier

1850 Fourdrinier Paper Machine

1865 Hammanasset Paper Mill Site (*)

1871 Bathroom Tissue

1873 Quote on Paper Manufacture (**)

1882 Merrill & Houston-Paper Machine Contract

1900 Harper Fourdrinier

(*) Page selection from Arch Net Univ. of Conn. Virtual Library
(**) From Paper Trade Journal of 1873
Original colored graphics by Luigi Bagnato