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Show 3 OLD~PAPERMAKIN in 1775 and was considered, at the time, one of th bestequipped mills in the country. This establishment operated two Hollanders with rolls two fee inlength and twenty-six inches in diameter whic produced the required pulp for two vats. A millo this size would have had a capacity of from fou to five thousand sheets of demy paper a day The Dutch had but little water power so it wa essential that they rely on the wind to set thei machines in motion. The heavy and cumbersom stamping-mills required so much power that the could not have been operated advantageously b the strength of the wind, so it was necessary for th ingenious Dutch to devise a machine for reducin rags to pulp, that was more easily operated. Tw of the Dutch beaters would prepare as much pu as twenty-four of the stampers and required les power The earliest engraving of the Hollander is show by Leonbardt Christoph Sturm in his book o mill machinery,"Vollstandige Mithlen Baukunst, which was published in Augsburg in 17:8. Th Hollanders were arranged in a circle in the mills s that four or five of the machines could have bee turned by one huge wheel, which was made of oa or hickory, with wooden pegs driven around th rim which acted as cogs. In Sturm's print there ar pictured five Hollanders and two mill-stones. Th stones were used for grinding flour at the same tim Diital image© 2004 Marriot Libary, University of Utah. Al righs reserved |