Coventina's History Thread: All the News(paper) that's Fit to Print!

[Coventina]

Sorry it's been a few days. My feeble excuse is that classes started this week, and I've been a tiny bit busy with that!
Haha!

Anyway...In my last installment, I was talking about the early days of making paper in the Americas, so I'm picking up where I left off....

Much of the paper being produced in these early mills was made from old rags, clothing, and other textiles, making a thick paper. Around 1840, a Canadian named Charles Fenerty used a fine wood pulp to create a thin, inexpensive paper known as "newsprint." However, he didn't pursue a patent for his work and his claim of invention was lost to others. Still, Fenerty's invention enabled newspapers to be printed more frequently.

[msongs]

1. so modern paper helped put the rag and bone crowd out of work? shades of dickens nt

[Coventina]

3. Pretty much

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[LoisB]

2. It's funny, I've never thought about the difference between newsprint and "regular" paper.

Thank you for this lesson. Have a great school year.

[niyad]

4. Thank you fo the fscinating history lessons. Paper!

Hope the current academic year is a good one.

[Coventina]

5. Thanks! I'm pretty nervous. Academic freedom is under serious threat.

[niyad]

6. I worry for all of you!!!

[True Dough]

7. Dude looks like he could have

been cast on The Walking Dead.

READ ALL ABOUT IT!

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Newsprint is still used because

it's cheap.

Drawback: the highest photo resolution you can get on it is about 180 dpi.