Curiosities of Industry (Paperback) - 5 Angebote vergleichen

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RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 224 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.5in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: . . . sheets together, was one notable aid to the paper-stainer; the removal of the Excise duty has been a second; while the use of the cylinder machine has capped those improvements, and rendered it possible to make wall-papers at a farthing per yard. When we consider that paper-hangings used to pay--besides the duty per lb. on all paper--no less than d. per yard in their capacity as wall-paper, we may cease to wonder at the lowering of price which recent times have witnessed. And it is not difficult, too, to see how the cylinder method should bring about a lower rate of charge than the block method. Calico printing, we know, has borne witness to an analogous fact; the cylinder machine has given tasteful print dresses to the wives and daughters of men who could not have borne the price of such productions in past times. The analogy is very close throughout. In the one case cotton, and in the other paper, is made in one continuous length; in both cases this length is wound round a beam or roller; in both cases there are engraved cylinders, as many as there are to be colours, and each having a device of its own; in both cases there are as many troughs of colour as there are cylinders; in both cases the cylinders feed themselves with colour, but in such a way as to take up the colour on the raised parts in the one case, but on the sunk parts in the other; in both cases the endless web is drawn in between rollers, and made to pass over all the colour-wetted cylinders in succession; in both cases the complete pattern is seen to be printed by the time the material leaves the machine; and in both cases the printed strip undergoes a rapid drying process. The Great Exhibition, among its numerous specimens illustrative of paper-hangings, contained some which showed in a m. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.

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