Great facts : a popular history and description of the most remarkable inventions during the present century (1860)
Bakewell, Frederick C. (Frederick Collier), 1800-1869 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 239
theenterprise a ruinous specu-lation to those who firstengaged in it. Messrs.Fourdrinier having ex-pended £60,000 in perfect-ing the machine. The apparatus, of whicha representation is givenin the annexed woodcut,was very complicated, butthe essential parts may bereadily understood. The rags from… … ^rS 224 GREAT FACTS. ting rollers; they are then bleached and again sub-mitted to the grinding action of rollers, which reducethem into a state of fine pulp, resembling milk inappearance. The pulp thus prepared is placed in alarge vat, where it is kept constantly agitated, toprevent the more solid…
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