The Treatment of Paper for Special Purposes - A Practical Introduction to the Preparation of Paper Products for a Great Variety of Purposes #270350

Of all the materials now in extensive use, paper is probably the one attracting the greatest attention, by reason of its manifold application to the production of useful articles. Thin sheets of paper are now made up, not merely into articles that retain the characteristics of the material, in some cases coated or coloured, hut also into others in which the original material has disappeared, homogeneous solid substances being formed that are capable of competing with wood or iron in point of durability and elasticity. Instructions for working paper up into a great variety of articles are to be found in a large number of hooks and periodicals; and the author has undertaken the task of collecting and sifting them, in the hope that the result will prove beneficial to all trades in which paper is used as a raw material.