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Show 25 PAPERMAKIN portant early industry have gone into decay, and not a vestige o any of the old equipment, except a few scattered moulds, remains ‘The original Rittenhouse mill that was established near German town, Pennsylvania, about 1690 s swept away by high water i ~o. 15 Wood-block wsed in the printing of labels for the marking o ‘packages of paper. Chambéry, 172 1700, but Rittenhouse and his son Claus built another mill, a shor distance below the ste of the first, which was in operation in ¥ 702 here is no authoritative picture of the original mill, nor of th second structure. According to the letters of William McCGulloc to Isaiah Thomas written between 1812 and 1815, the original Rittenhouse mill was of logs, the building extending over an undershot water wheel, there being no dam or race. This Philadelphi stone mill s still attached to the present mill and covers a larg press with a screw, made of cherry, about eighteen inches diamete Digital Image© 2004 University of Utah. All ights reserved |
