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Show PAPERMAKIN BY HAN IN AMERIC wasonlyeleven yearsof age at the time of the foundin of the Delawat paper mill, he was, nevertheless, acquainted with the technicalities o papermakingasituwas then practiced. Thomas Gilpindid notmarry. 1 1 sful an specitmens of the writing and printing papers that have been preserve reveal aquality of materfal and adept workmanship unsurpassed byab American or European makers o the period Joshua Gilpin sailed for Englandin 1795and dfd not return to Ameri until the year 1801, These were formative years in Europe for mechanf cal papermaking, forinSeptember, 1798, Nicholas-LouisR obertapplie fora French patent on hfs newly-invented paper-machine, the earl(;f commenced plans for the constructfo of a paper-machsne by employi's e French fnventor. Itis possible that Joshu 1lpin learnedof the buildin of this machine, or ave seen the principle conceived by th mod i en constructed b Nicholas-Louis Robert. Regardl@ any owledge of the fnventfon of th paper-machine, tb Gilpin brotherscontinued tomanufacture paperat the Brandywine by ustng the traditional hand methods. The Gilpfn mill did not {ntf% duce mechanical papermakin in America until the year1817 e mil were t names<J GILPIN & CO"and "T GILPIN & CO,"with theadd{tio xd "BR ANDY WINE," all executed in the regulation outl{f Form of lettering. The watermark specimen shown on page 127 of Delawa of th ‘mill; the marksof a later perfod assumed amore even appearance fnventive gentus of Thomas Gilpfn was responsible for buildi? pliance wasput fnoperatfo August, 1817, thus beginning the fnevit demise of the ancfent hand process of forming sheets of paper, ameth that had been fn use fn America stnce the {ntroductfon of the craft Iatter yearsof the seventeenth century ter suffering severe losses from destructive floods and dfsastro firesat the paper mill, Joshua Glpfndfed August 22,1841, fn his De ware homestead "Kentmere." Thomas Gilpfn passedaway March: znfikf |
