Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. IV no. 4, October 1951 By Harrison Elliott A somewhat simple and ingenious contrivance is the paper mould used in forming each sheet separately by the hand process for making handmade paper. This mould is essentially a hand tool which, in one form or another, but basically the same in …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XII No. 4, December 1959 By Laurence A. Johnson “Though thou shouldest bray ( beat small) a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will his foolishness not depart from him.” – The Book of Proverbs, xxvii, 22 On April 27, 1958, I was the guest of …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 57 no. 4, December 2004 by Louise Muse In 1876, Justus Roe of Patchogue, New York, decided to go into the business of manufacturing steel tape measures. The company he founded is still in business in the small town where he had his first factory, and it still specializes in …
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Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. X111 no. 4. December, 1960 by Laurence A. Johnson The speed and enthusiasm with which the American public in the late 1860’s took up the use of the self propelled velocipede was almost unparalleled up to that time. In less than three year after Pierre Lallement of Paris, France, assigned …