Part one of term paper
Papermaking goes as far back as 105 A.D. when Ts'ai Lun, an official at the Imperial Court of China, made a sheet of paper using mulberry and other fibres along with fish nets, rags and hemp waste. The first paper was made in 793 A.D. in Baghdad during Harun-ar-Raschid's rule, with the golden age of Islamic culture that brought papermaking ...

Part two of term paper
... raw materials. This soon presented a shortage, since no more rags and linen were available and it is was apparent that a process for utilizing a more abundant material was required. IMPROVEMENTS IN MATERIALS AND PROCESSES In 1800 a book was published which stated practical methods for manufacturing paper from wood and vegetable pulps. Soon many publishing processes were developed and the paper industry no longer had to depend on rags and linen and this made mass producti ...