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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.1885

Creator
 Voorn, H. (auteur/author)

Year
 1985

Type
 illustratie, illustration

Related term
 papiermaken, papiermachines, Fourdriniermachines

Period
 19e eeuw

Classification
 B: Schriftdragers, inkt

Content
 The Fourdrinier machine, developed by, amongst others, the Fourdrinier brothers in England in the years 1803-1808, was called after them for that very reason. The 'Fourdrinier machine' consists of a long broad belt of wire cloth which is led continuously along a number of rollers. On the wire cloth The pulp is poured onto the wire cloth which is thus mechanically made into paper.

@description
 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek

@reproduction
 VNP (Vereniging van Nederlandse Papier- en Kartonfabrieken), Hoofddorp