Outlining the early history of the U.S. paper industry, this book provides details on paper manufacturing from the early 1800s, when American paper was created almost entirely by hand out of cotton and other plant fibers, to the discovery of wood-pulp paper and the introduction of commercial-grade paper machines during the post-Civil War period. It discusses paper machine manufacturing, major U.S. mills, the papermaking traditions of Dutch and German immigrants, the politics of papermaking, and the eventual expansion of the paper industry from New England to the forests of the Northeast, Midwest, and Northwest. Two appendices provide a census listing of more than 1,100 U.S. paper mills, along with a directory of more than 1,300 mill owners and companies. The book contains around 70 illustrations and diagrams of major mills and relevant manufacturing technologies.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Interest Age: From 18 years
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
61 photos, 6 tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 254 mm
Breite: 178 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-5863-9 (9780786458639)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Writer and businessman AJ Valente lives in West Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Preface
Part One: The Cylinder-Wire Machine
1. The Rag Market
2. Gilpin vs. Ames
3. Pittsfield Progress
4. The Paper Trade
5. The Growing Empire
6. The Demise of Handmade Paper
Part Two: The Moving-Wire Machine
7. The Machine Manufacturers
8. Ohio and the West
9. North and South
10. Crane vs. Willcox
11. Holyoke, City of Industry
Part Three: The Wood Pulp Era
12. The Curtisville Exponent
13. A Changing Industry
14. West and Northwest
Appendix I: Directory of 19th Century Paper Mills
Appendix II: Directory of Paper Mill Owners
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index