paper's journey from china to america

1. 105 A.D.--Paper invented by Ts'al Lun in Lei-yang. 610--Paper introduced into Japan via Korea. 770--The Million Prayers of Empress Shotoku, first text printing on paper.
2. 751--Paper made in Samarkand, presumed to have been learned from Chinese prisoners of war.
3. 793--Baghdad: paper introduced by Harun-al-Rashid, learned from Chinese in Samarkand.
4. 900--Paper made in Egypt, employing Chinese methods of manufacture.
5. 1100--First papermaking in Moracco--from Egypt.
6. 1151--World's first stamping mill at Xativa, Spain; motivated by water power until invention of "Hollander."
7. 1276--establishment of paper mill at Fabriano (oldest continuously operating paper mill). 1282--First known watermark of Europe, at Fabriano.
8. 1348--First paper mill in France, at Troyes. 1719--Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur suggests use of wood for pulp. 1777--"Wove" (papier velin) exhibited in Paris by Benjamin Franklin. 1798--Nicholas-Louis Robert invents continuous web paper-making machine. Called to this day the Fourdrinier because it was developed in England by two brothers of that name.
9. 1390--Mill established at Nurnberg by Ulman Stromer (famous "S" watermark); first known paper-maker's strike at this mill. 1450-5--Gutenberg's 42-line Bible published. 1540--Glazing hammer, supplanting hand burnishing of paper, invented 1595--First "paste-papers."
10. 1322--First use of paper in Holland. 1680--invention of the "Hollander," a machine supplanting primitive beaters motivated by wind or water.
11. English mill established in Hertfordshire by John Tate. 1757--Introduction of "wove" paper, made by Turkey Mill for John Baskerville. 1848--Chiaroscuro watermarks invented by William Henry Smith.
12. 1690--Founding of first American mill in Germantown, PA.

Germantown History in Philadelphia, 

the first place for an American paper mill.

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