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  2. George Bruce (industrialist) - Wikipedia

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    George Bruce (July 5, 1781 ... July 6, 1866) [1] was an American printer, industrialist and inventor. [2 ... and in November of that year printer and publisher of the ...

  3. History of paper - Wikipedia

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    Paper is a thin nonwoven material traditionally made from a combination of milled plant and textile fibres. The first paper-like plant-based writing sheet was papyrus in Egypt, but the first true papermaking process was documented in China during the Eastern Han period (25–220 AD), traditionally attributed to the court official Cai Lun.

  4. Clipboard - Wikipedia

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    Another early version of the clipboard, known as the "memorandum file", was invented by American inventor George Henry Hohnsbeen in 1921, for which he was granted U.S. patent 1,398,591. [2] Related to the clipboard is the Shannon Arch File, which was developed around 1877. [1]

  5. Paper - Wikipedia

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    Because paper was introduced to the West through the city of Baghdad, it was first called bagdatikos. [5] In the 19th century, industrialization greatly reduced the cost of manufacturing paper. In 1844, the Canadian inventor Charles Fenerty and the German inventor Friedrich Gottlob Keller independently developed processes for pulping wood ...

  6. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    1799: George Medhurst invents the first motorized air compressor. 1799: The first paper machine is invented by Louis-Nicolas Robert. Late modern period. 19th century

  7. George West (American politician) - Wikipedia

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    West was called "The Paper Bag King" because he was one of the first men in the country to manufacture paper bags at a time when most bags were made from cotton. [1] In 1869, he and the few other bag manufacturers in the country joined with Francis Wolle, inventor of the first paper bag machine, to form the Union Paper Bag Machine Company. Its ...

  8. Stapler - Wikipedia

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    In 1866, George McGill received U.S. patent 56,587 [5] for a small, bendable brass paper fastener that was a precursor to the modern staple. In 1867, he received U.S. patent 67,665 [ 6 ] for a press to insert the fastener into paper.

  9. History of papermaking in New York - Wikipedia

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    Finch Paper LLC (Finch, Pruyn Company) is an American paper manufacturing corporation, operating in Glens Falls, New York, for 150 years. [25] [26] [27] In Mechanicville, New York, Westvaco Corporation's MeadWestvaco 6 paper machines ran non-stop to feed the printing presses of the nation's leading publishers. After WWII the Westvaco plant was ...