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Show 17 PAPERMAKIN was operated by a windmill or water wheel,-in Holland b power of the wind, and in Germany and France by the weigh force of water. In one of the prints in Sturm's book there ar picted five Dutch beaters in combination with two mlllsmncs th an deth The improved Hollander, The cngmmg in Groot Volkome Moolenboek, Amsterdam, 173 stones grinding flour at the same time the beaters reduced rags t pulp for papermaking. This combination of making flour an paper in the same mill was not usually practiced, and some hav thought that the placing of the millstones in the engraving wa simply a fancy of the author, who producc([ the book affer a jo ney through Holland visiting mills used fo s purposes. I is, however, recorded that Nicholas Hassclbwgh operatthe former De Wees mill in Pennsylvania in the late eightcenth century, had a pair of stones in connection with the pape mill and carried on an extensive business in both flour and paper | o Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |
