The invention of printing : a collection of facts and opinions descriptive of early prints and playing cards, the block-books of the fifteenth century, the legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the work of John Gutenberg and his associates (1878)
De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 · New York : F. Hart · leaf 147
et in motion awooden cylinder even-ly spiked with projec-tions. As the cylinderrevolved, these projec-tions tilted up, and thendropped heavy stamp-ers of hard wood thatbeat against the torn Paper-Mill of the Sixteenth Century. ° [Fmm jost Amman.] and well-soaked rags lying within the tank. The… … THE INTRODUCTION OF PAPER IN EUROPE. 141 paper-maker is at work. The dipping out of the pulp withhand mould and deckle, the couching of the web on inter-leaving felts, and its transfer to be pressed by the brisk littleboy, are the same processes in all points as those that havebeen described in the…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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