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Show EARL WRITER 10 and ten of these a bale of paper, 11. That which s to last long i written on parchment, x2." Another little book of the same description as the "Visible World" was published in London i 1791, under the general title of "The Progress of Man and Society. ‘This litcle book of trades was compiled by the Reverend Docto Trusler and its mission was to instruct the young in the choice o acalling or profession. The chief papermaking interest in this boo lies in the wood engraving rcpmduccd in \llutlr'\(mn No. o4 which is not found in any o of trades, either English o continental, This same: mu.nmiun, |mwcvcr, may be found on coloured broadside which was published in London in 1817 wit the caption: "He that hath a Calling, hath an Estate. n June 20, 1788, Benjamin Franklin read before the member of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, a treatise o papermaking which was later published in the Transactions o this Socicty* Doctor Franklin describes in his essay the laboriou method used in Europe for forming large sheets of paper, and the relates the simple manner employed by the Chinese papermaker in solving the diffculty. The European method consisted of pasting small sheets together at the edges and burnishing the joint with a fi hina a large mould was used, operated by tw men and balanced by a counterpoise. The large sheets wer couched upon the flat inclining sides of a heated oven or kiln which gave one side of each sheet a remarkably smooth surface Doctor Franklin states that by this method the Chinese workme could make paper "four and an half ells long by one and an hal ells wide. As previously stated, it will not be possible to c1rry these deX Decrpion ofthe rocs t b in mlinglrge shects o ppe i th Sty e b e s ot o o pomoing wseil knowledge, Philadelphia, 1705, Vols cm Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |