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Show i 16 PAPERMAKIN great wooden hammers, at first set at a slant, but later perpendicuIarly, which were made to rise and fall by means ofa scries of cam out axis. These hammers or pestles operated up and dow in troughs into which the rags were thrown; the troughs o ‘afi' No. 10 The original stampers were set at a slant, but later they wer placed perpendicularl oles," as they were termed, were fashioned from great blocks o stone or from logs of th ¢, the wooden cavities being line y European mills were turned b water power, which differentiated them from mills of the Orien where the beating had been accomplished by the power of man While European workmen received ffom the Orientals th ciples of pap ot long before they had put to us s b e bl operation,-the rigid, metalcovered mould was devised, a better and less laborious processo beating was adopted, and the streams and rivers were put to wor t0 turn their paper mills. Yet after these innovations were brough into use the craft experienced but few changes over a period o several hundred years; in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Eu Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |
