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CHAPTER XVI.
PRUSSIA AND GERMAN STATES.
Whilst we are in the Park let us examine this wonderful
Wurtemberg paper machine, for which a special building has
been erected.
Since the papyrus of the Ancients and the parchment of
Middle Ages, numerous are the inventions of man to procure
a white, smooth and thin surface whereon to delineate the
inspirations of his wisdom or the ravings of his folly. For a
long time rags were sufficient, and the gentleman's linen after,
having done its service in the upper ranks, and gradually
descended to the lower, was finally transformed into the best
r
cream-laid, and sometimes returned to him in the shape of a
billet-doux. Now the consumption of paper in Europe alone
being totally out of proportion with the production of rags in
the whole universe, all sorts of substitutes have been devised
to replace them. Straw, bark, and sundry fibres have been
tried with more or less success.
Voelter's machine, exhibited by Decker Brothers,, of Cann-
stadt, proves that the nature of the ingredient is not of so
much importance as the mode of treating it, for with the aid
of its powerful crushers, grinders and rollers it turns any
kind of light coloured wood into fine white pulp. The ad-
CHAPTER XVI.
PRUSSIA AND GERMAN STATES.
Whilst we are in the Park let us examine this wonderful
Wurtemberg paper machine, for which a special building has
been erected.
Since the papyrus of the Ancients and the parchment of
Middle Ages, numerous are the inventions of man to procure
a white, smooth and thin surface whereon to delineate the
inspirations of his wisdom or the ravings of his folly. For a
long time rags were sufficient, and the gentleman's linen after,
having done its service in the upper ranks, and gradually
descended to the lower, was finally transformed into the best
r
cream-laid, and sometimes returned to him in the shape of a
billet-doux. Now the consumption of paper in Europe alone
being totally out of proportion with the production of rags in
the whole universe, all sorts of substitutes have been devised
to replace them. Straw, bark, and sundry fibres have been
tried with more or less success.
Voelter's machine, exhibited by Decker Brothers,, of Cann-
stadt, proves that the nature of the ingredient is not of so
much importance as the mode of treating it, for with the aid
of its powerful crushers, grinders and rollers it turns any
kind of light coloured wood into fine white pulp. The ad-