Richard Leslie Hills, MBE is an English historian and clergyman who has written extensively on the history of technology. He founded Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry.

• ForewordAcknowledgments1 This Paper Thynne, John Tate2 Paper of High Grade, Papermaking Before 15003 The Art of Watermarking4 A New Industry Emerges, 1500-18005 The Whatmans and Wove Paper6 The Origins of Wallpaper7 The Development of the Fourdrinier Paper Machine8 Rival Machines for Making Paper9 The Nineteenth Century: Demand Outstrips Rag Supplies10 Esparto and Other Types of Pulp11 The Paper Machine Matures12 Watermarks on Papermachines13 The Twentieth CenturyBibliographyGlossaryNotes Index

Richard Leslie Hills, MBE is an English historian and clergyman who has written extensively on the history of technology. He founded Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry.

• ForewordAcknowledgments1 This Paper Thynne, John Tate2 Paper of High Grade, Papermaking Before 15003 The Art of Watermarking4 A New Industry Emerges, 1500-18005 The Whatmans and Wove Paper6 The Origins of Wallpaper7 The Development of the Fourdrinier Paper Machine8 Rival Machines for Making Paper9 The Nineteenth Century: Demand Outstrips Rag Supplies10 Esparto and Other Types of Pulp11 The Paper Machine Matures12 Watermarks on Papermachines13 The Twentieth CenturyBibliographyGlossaryNotes Index

Richard Leslie Hills, MBE is an English historian and clergyman who has written extensively on the history of technology. He founded Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry.

• ForewordAcknowledgments1 This Paper Thynne, John Tate2 Paper of High Grade, Papermaking Before 15003 The Art of Watermarking4 A New Industry Emerges, 1500-18005 The Whatmans and Wove Paper6 The Origins of Wallpaper7 The Development of the Fourdrinier Paper Machine8 Rival Machines for Making Paper9 The Nineteenth Century: Demand Outstrips Rag Supplies10 Esparto and Other Types of Pulp11 The Paper Machine Matures12 Watermarks on Papermachines13 The Twentieth CenturyBibliographyGlossaryNotes Index