[PDF] Hist Of Paper Manufacturing In eBook

Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 5878545039

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В сборнике опубликованы научные статьи докторантов, аспирантов и соискателей, которые могут быть использованы в ходе научных исследований и практической деятельности

Author : Jonathan M. Bloom
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300089554

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This engaging book presents a new chapter in paper's history: how its use in Islamic lands during the Middle Ages influenced almost every aspect of medieval life. The text and illustrations (of papermaking techniques and the many uses to which paper was put) give new luster and importance to a now-humble material. 100+ illustrations.

Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0393285480

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From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world. Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art; it has formed the foundation of civilizations, promoting revolutions and restoring stability. By tracing paper’s evolution from antiquity to the present, with an emphasis on the contributions made in Asia and the Middle East, Mark Kurlansky challenges common assumptions about technology’s influence, affirming that paper is here to stay. Paper will be the commodity history that guides us forward in the twenty-first century and illuminates our times.

Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781330572047

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Excerpt from A History of Paper-Manufacturing in the United States, 1690-1916 Many books have been written concerning the purely technical sides of paper-making and much about the origin and history of the craft among the peoples of the world. Also there have been considerable accounts of special features of it in this country; descriptions of individual mills; sketches of manufacturers, inventors and scientists; considerations of the introduction and improvement of new methods, new materials and new machinery and their influence; records of organizations, and so on. All this latter, however - though wholly admirable, interesting and valuable in itself - has been of a desultory and disconnected character: mainly chapters in books, magazines and newspapers; papers read before business associations, conventions and societies; addresses and discussions in legislative bodies, and essays and treatises in scientific periodicals. This History covers the field differently. It is the only attempt that has been made to bring into one complete, compact narrative all the material facts relating to the industry and to present in an exhaustive and comprehensive manner, on the purely historical side, the annals of this f; branch of American manufacturing, from the erecting of the first little mill in Philadelphia, in 1690, to the opening years of the twentieth century. What has been done in this way for coal-mining, agriculture, many branches of manufacturing, oil production, the iron and steel industries and other American industrial activities has been here attempted for paper-making. Gathering material for this History has occupied much of the time of the author for several years past, in conjunction with research along other historical lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Carla Bittel
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 2019-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0822986809

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Working with Paper builds on a growing interest in the materials of science by exploring the gendered uses and meanings of paper tools and technologies, considering how notions of gender impacted paper practices and in turn how paper may have structured knowledge about gender. Through a series of dynamic investigations covering Europe and North America and spanning the early modern period to the twentieth century, this volume breaks new ground by examining material histories of paper and the gendered worlds that made them. Contributors explore diverse uses of paper—from healing to phrenological analysis to model making to data processing—which often occurred in highly gendered, yet seemingly divergent spaces, such as laboratories and kitchens, court rooms and boutiques, ladies’ chambers and artisanal workshops, foundling houses and colonial hospitals, and college gymnasiums and state office buildings. Together, they reveal how notions of masculinity and femininity became embedded in and expressed through the materials of daily life. Working with Paper uncovers the intricate negotiations of power and difference underlying epistemic practices, forging a material history of knowledge in which quotidian and scholarly practices are intimately linked.

Author : Alexander Monro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 030796230X

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A sweeping, richly detailed history that tells the fascinating story of how paper—the simple Chinese invention of two thousand years ago—wrapped itself around our world, humankind’s most momentous ideas imprinted on its surface. The emergence of paper in the imperial court of Han China brought about a revolution in the transmission of knowledge and ideas, allowing religions, philosophies and propaganda to spread with ever greater ease. The first writing surface sufficiently cheap, portable and printable for books, pamphlets and journals to be mass-produced and distributed widely, paper opened the way for an unprecedented, ongoing dialogue between individuals and between communities across continents, oceans and time. The Paper Trail explores how the new substance was used to solidify social and political systems that influenced China even into our own time. We see how paper made possible the spread of the then new religions of Buddhism and Manichaeism into Japan, Korea and Vietnam . . . how it enabled theologians, scientists and artists to build the vast and signally intellectual empire of the Abbasid Caliphate and embed the Koran in popular culture . . . how paper was carried along the Silk Road by merchants and missionaries, finally reaching Europe in the late thirteenth century . . . and how, once established in Europe, along with the printing press, paper played an essential role in the three great foundations of Western modernity: the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution. Here is a dramatic, comprehensively researched, vividly written story populated by holy men and scholars, warriors and poets, rulers and ordinary men and women—an essential story brilliantly told in this luminous work of history.