History Of Papermaking
Beginning of paper
Papermaking goes as far back as 105 A.D. when Ts'ai Lun, an official
at the Imperial Court of China, made a sheet of paper using mulberry and
other fibres along with fish nets, rags and hemp waste. The first paper
was made in 793 A.D. in Baghdad during Harun-ar-Raschid's rule, with the
golden age ....
Middle of paper
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manufacturing paper from wood and vegetable pulps. Soon many publishing
processes were developed and the paper industry no longer had to depend on
rags and linen and this made mass production possible. There were two main
kinds of pulping processes used in the 18th century and they were,
mechanical or groundwood pulping and chemical pulping. Mechanical pulping
contains certain wood components and therefore, it is not suitable for
paper in which high whiteness and permanence are required. ....
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