 ... miraculous. By the agency of a great deal of complicated machinery, so admirably contrived as to produce the intended effect with unerring precision, and in the very best manner, a process which, in the old system of paper-making, occupied about three...  A statistical account of the British empire - Page 701by John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pages
...mechanist, Mr. Dickinson, of Hertfordshire, by means of which a continuous stream of fluid pulp is not only made into paper, but actually dried, polished,...the edges, and rendered completely ready for use, within the brief space of three minutes ! * Modern science affords numerous examples of this class... | |
 | Thomas Martin - Great Britain - 1835 - 388 pages
...mechanist, Mr. Dickinson, of Hertfordshire, by means of which a continuous stream of fluid pulp is not only made into paper, but actually dried, polished,...every separate sheet cut round the edges, and rendered HIS LIFE AND WORKS. 197 completely ready for use, within the brief space of three minutes ! * Modern... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Great Britain - 1839 - 762 pages
...which, in the old system of paper-making, occupied about three weeks is performed in as many minutes ! A continuous stream of fluid pulp is, within this brief...round the edges, and rendered completely ready for use I The paper manufactured by this wonderful combination of intelligence and power is at once moderate... | |
 | Robert Burns - Dialect poetry, Scottish - 1840 - 338 pages
...produced in about three minutes, as, in the old system of paper-making, occupied about three weeks! "A continuous stream of fluid pulp is, within this brief...paper, but actually dried, polished, and every separate Paper is of various sorts, according to the purposes for which it may be intended. With regard to texture,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1848 - 510 pages
...which in the old system of paper-making occupied about three weeks, is performed in as many minutes ! A continuous stream of fluid pulp is, within this brief...quality, to that which was formerly made by hand.* Another writer also justly observes, that " this mode being more economical, more rapid, and more powerful,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Commercial products - 1849 - 164 pages
...under the old sy&tem of paper-making occupied about three weeks, is performed in as many minutes ! A continuous stream of fluid pulp is, within this brief...distance of thirty feet, not only made into paper, hut actually dried, polished, and every separate sheet cut round the edges, and rendered completely... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Commerce - 1852 - 882 pages
...which in the old system of paper-making occupied about three weeks, is performed in as many minutes! A continuous stream of fluid pulp is, within this brief space of time, and the short distance of 30 feet, not only made into paper, but actually dried, polished, and every separate sheet cut round... | |
 | Thomas Edward Dexter - 1857 - 200 pages
...which in the old system of paper making occupied about three weeks, is performed in as many minutes. A continuous stream of fluid pulp, is within this brief...price, and for most purposes superior in quality to what was formerly made by hand. This extremely useful substance is thin, flexible, of different colours,... | |
 | Education - 1864 - 622 pages
...process which, under the old hand system, occupied a couple of weeks, is now performed in a few minutes. Within this brief space of time, and the short distance of thirty or forty feet, a continuous stream of fluid pulp ia made into paper, dried, polished, and cut up into... | |
 | Charles Louis Flint, Charles Francis McCay, John C. Merriam, Thomas Prentice Kettell, Linus Pierpont Brockett - Agriculture - 1870 - 642 pages
...process which, under the old hand system, occupied a couple of weeks, is now performed in a few minutes. Within this brief space of time, and the short distance of thirty or forty feet, a continuous stream of fluid pulp is made into paper, dried, polished, and cut up into... | |
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