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Show 10 OLD~PAPERMAKIN further of making the coloured pulp in clear water "Second: Of the expense. Mr. Brewer has informed me that it has been ascertained by experiment that one man could on the last new plan o three dippings and one couching, male § sheets o this new paper in ten minutes without any succes Papermakiog From e Sister Arts."Lewes, 180 sion of moulds. The following is founded upo this fact. Eight sheets in ten minutes, 48 sheets i an hour, 480 sheets in a day of ten hours. If ther be eight notes on a sheet, 38 40 notes may be mad in a day by one man, and if twenty men are employed, they would make 76800 notes in a da which is, I believe, considerably more than required. (signed) William Congreve. There are thirty-six specimens of paper affixe in the back of Congreve's manuscript volume. Th first twenty-four examples were fabricated by th Diital image© 2004 Mariot Libary, Universty o Utah. Allright reserved |