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This image bank contains approximately 1400 digitized images about the history of the printed book in the Netherlands, largely originating from the collections of the KB. The images can be downloaded and used with the stated credit line.

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Title
 Fourdrinier machine, c. 1860

Creator
 Sijthoff, A.W. (uitgever/publisher)

Year
 1874

Type
 illustratie, illustration

Measurements
 7, 5 x 20, 5 cm.

Related term
 papiermaken, papiermachines, Fourdriniermachines

Period
 19e eeuw

Classification
 B: Schriftdragers, inkt

Content
 This Fourdrinier machine which could automatically produce a continuous length of paper, gradually ousted the traditional hand-made paper. In the Netherlands the first paper making machines appeared in the south of Limburg (from 1834), later also in the Zaanstreek (Zaan area) and the Veluwe. To the left of this picture are the paper vats from which the paper pulp is poured onto a sifting cloth of metal wires. This paper mass is subsequently processed by all kinds of pressing and drying rollers.

Original
 Schrift en schrijfkunst. Het boekdrukken. Hout-, koper- en staalgraveerkunst. Het steendrukken en het boekbinden. - Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1874, p. 15

available in
 Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 497 K 82

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 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek

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 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek