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Paper mil·limetrat; Usage on de.wikipedia.org Logarithmenpapier; Usage on en.wiktionary.org log-log paper; Usage on es.wikipedia.org Papel milimetrado; Papel grafiado; Usage on es.wikibooks.org Curso de alemán para principiantes con audio/Lección 094b; Usage on fa.wikipedia.org کاغذ رسم; Usage on it.wikipedia.org Carta millimetrata
James Whatman (1702–1759) James Whatman (1702–1759), the Elder, was a paper maker, born in Kent, who made revolutionary advances to the craft in England.He is noted as the inventor of wove paper (or Vélin), an innovation used for high-quality art and printing.
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In the early days, felled logs were transported using simple methods such as rivers to float tree trunks downstream to sawmills or paper mills. This practice, known as log driving or timber rafting, was the cheapest and most common. Some logs, due to high resin content, would sink and were known as deadheads.
Continuous stationery (UK) or continuous form paper (US) is paper which is designed for use with dot-matrix and line printers with appropriate paper-feed mechanisms. Other names include fan-fold paper , sprocket-feed paper , burst paper , lineflow (New Zealand), tractor-feed paper , and pin-feed paper .
Handmade paper generally folds and tears more evenly along the laid lines. The International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA) is the world-leading association for handmade paper artists. Handmade paper is also prepared in laboratories to study papermaking and in paper mills to check the quality of the production process.
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The business was founded in 1711 by Henri de Portal (1690–1747), a Huguenot refugee from Poitiers in France, who had come to England as a child with his father. Before the arrival of the Huguenot immigrants, most of Britain's paper requirements had been imported, but in 1686 a paper mill was established at South Stoneham using Huguenot expertise, and Henri found employment there.