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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Cai Lun, Montgolfier brothers, History of paper, Robert R. McCormick, Charles Fenerty, Louis-Nicolas Robert, William Barrow, Elijah Craig, Hugh J. Chisholm, Friedrich Gottlob Keller, Thomas Neale, Walter Hamady, Carl Daniel Ekman, James M. Warner, Johan Richter, Ernest Gambart, Dard Hunter, Samuel D. Ingham, Henry Davis Pochin, William Whiting II, Paul J. Sorg, Lauritz Jenssen, Alexander H. Rice, Isaiah Thomas, Rudolf Walden, Peter and Donna Thomas, Charles Smith Hamilton, Person Colby Cheney, Emanuel Shultz, Howard Spicer, Winthrop M. Crane, John Dickinson, Ezra Butler Eddy, Rudolph Ackermann, Rodney Wallace, Edward Cardwell, Thomas Harry Saunders, James Crooks, John Taylor, John Roaf Barber, Lauritz Jenssen Dorenfeldt, Henry D. Gilpin, John Spilman, Louis Schweitzer, James Whatman, Byron Weston, J. Eugene Harding, William Rittenhouse, William A. Russell, Jesper Harding, Charles Frederick Cross, Edward John Bevan, Charles Kinsey, Bernard Lemaire, Timothy Barrett, William Luke, Paperlinx, Ryoei Saito. Excerpt: Paper was invented by the Chinese by 105 AD during the Han Dynasty and spread slowly to the west via Samarkand and Baghdad. Papermaking and manufacturing in Europe started in Spain and Sicily in the 10th century by the Muslims living there at the time, and slowly spread to Italy and South France reaching Germany by 1400. In medieval Europe, the hitherto handcraft of papermaking was mechanized by the use of waterpower and other processes. The rapid expansion of European paper production was truly enhanced by the invention of the printing press and the beginning of the Printing Revolution in the 15th century. The word "paper" is etymologically derived from papyros, Ancient Greek for the Cyperus papyrus plant. Papyrus is a thick, paper-like material produced from the pith of the Cyperus papyrus plant which was...
