Excerpt from The Manufacture of Pulp and Paper, Vol. 4: A Textbook of Modern Pulp and Paper Mill Practice A shortage of papyrus in Asia Minor resulted in the invention of parchment, a specially dried calf or goat skin, filled by rubbing in chalk. Because of a similar famine in Rome, boards, covered with wax, were used; they were written on with a sharp instru ment called a stylus. Several layers of wax were sometimes put on the same tablet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and ...
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Excerpt from The Manufacture of Pulp and Paper, Vol. 4: A Textbook of Modern Pulp and Paper Mill Practice A shortage of papyrus in Asia Minor resulted in the invention of parchment, a specially dried calf or goat skin, filled by rubbing in chalk. Because of a similar famine in Rome, boards, covered with wax, were used; they were written on with a sharp instru ment called a stylus. Several layers of wax were sometimes put on the same tablet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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