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Show EARL WRITER 9 chemist, living in Sweden. The earliest work in English on th bleaching of paper that has come to my attention is dated 1702 and is a small octavo pamphlet pointing out the absurdity of on firm having the monopoly of the process. Apparently the Messrs Taylors, English papermakers, [hought that their mill should, fo some reason not stated, have the exclusive use of this method o whitening their paper, and the little booklet of forty-three page was printed in Edinburgh as a protest against this mill having a exclusive privilege. The first technical workin Engli h relative t the chemical bl hing of paper, that can be traced, was publishe in London in 1799 and is a translation by William Nicholson o Newman Succt, London, of the work of Pajot des Charmes. Thi ook gives short artiles on the method of, "bleaching written o printed papers and rags, whether unbleached, dyed or coloured" also of the "bleaching of old written papers, to be worked u again." Inasmuch as I have never been particularly interested i the bleaching of paper, since it destroys the fibres of the shets, the books dcallng with this phase of papermaking have not especiall appealedto me, although every collection of books of paper interest should, of course, include ther Toward the latter part of the c:gh(ccn(l\ century there were numerous books published in whichp papermaking wer this dcscnpuon e include the works o Gottlieb Christoph Von Murr® (1733-1811), Paul Von Stetten 1 Memorial relative to the invention of a new method of bleaching, ,hawmg heundity of ay prtentions t an excloive privilege for using itin th facture, Edinburgh, 1792, 13x 20 cm 2 The Art of Bleaching Picce-Goods, Cottons, and Threads, of every descriptio composed for the use Im'mu(n:xnr:rs bleachers, dyers, callco printers, an sl }mnflgc&dudn( i 1784. Volumes5 and 13. 10x 17 cm 4 Kunsigewerb und Handwerks Geschichte der Reichs-Stadt Augsburg. Augsburg 1779 10x17¢m Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |
