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The story of paper-making

Chapter 10: Transcriber’s Notes
By Frank Osgood Butler
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A concise historical and practical account tracing writing supports from ancient stone and clay through papyrus and parchment to the invention and refinement of paper, explaining early hand-made processes and the transition to machine-based production. It describes modern papermaking machinery and mill operations in accessible language, surveys water-marks and paper varieties, and outlines the growth and organization of the paper industry in the United States. Intended for nontechnical readers, it combines historical narrative with practical descriptions of materials, methods, and commercial scale.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.

Both “watermark” and “water-mark” occur frequently.

Text uses “Pittsburg”, not “Pittsburgh”.

Page 27: “Henry VI” was mis-printed as “Henry VII”; corrected here.