Author: James N. Green
Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9780914076841
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
In 1691 the Rittenhouse family opened a paper mill outside of Philadelphia and for the next forty years were the only paper manufacturers in America. Wilhelm Rittinghausen, later known as William Rittenhouse, was born in Mulheim, Germany and learned the paper making trade. He moved to Amsterdam at a young age and then emigrated to America with his three children in 1687. William's descendants continued to be active in the paper making business into the nineteenth century when the productivity of the mill gaveway to the new technology.
The Rittenhouse Mill and the Beginnings of Papermaking in America
Author: James N. Green
Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9780914076841
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
In 1691 the Rittenhouse family opened a paper mill outside of Philadelphia and for the next forty years were the only paper manufacturers in America. Wilhelm Rittinghausen, later known as William Rittenhouse, was born in Mulheim, Germany and learned the paper making trade. He moved to Amsterdam at a young age and then emigrated to America with his three children in 1687. William's descendants continued to be active in the paper making business into the nineteenth century when the productivity of the mill gaveway to the new technology.
Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9780914076841
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
In 1691 the Rittenhouse family opened a paper mill outside of Philadelphia and for the next forty years were the only paper manufacturers in America. Wilhelm Rittinghausen, later known as William Rittenhouse, was born in Mulheim, Germany and learned the paper making trade. He moved to Amsterdam at a young age and then emigrated to America with his three children in 1687. William's descendants continued to be active in the paper making business into the nineteenth century when the productivity of the mill gaveway to the new technology.
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
The Schwenkfelders in Pennsylvania, a Historical Sketch ...
Author: Howard Wiegner Kriebel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Schwenkfelders
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Schwenkfelders
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A History of Paper-manufacturing in the United States, 1690-1916
Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher: New York : Lockwood Trade Journal Company
ISBN:
Category : Paper industry
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Lockwood Trade Journal Company
ISBN:
Category : Paper industry
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Germantown and the Germans
Author: Edwin Wolf, II
Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9780914076728
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9780914076728
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A Historical Sketch of Roxborough, Manayunk, Wissahickon
Author: Joseph Starne Miles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manayunk (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manayunk (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Hand Made Paper and Its Water Marks
Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, V. 1
Author: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Ivy Mills, 1729-1866
Author: Joseph Willcox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chester (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
History of the Willcox family of Ivy Mills, Pennsylvania. Includes history of town of Ivy Mills.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chester (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
History of the Willcox family of Ivy Mills, Pennsylvania. Includes history of town of Ivy Mills.