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  • 3000 BCE

    Papyrus

    Papyrus
    The word paper "papyrus", in Latin, alludes to the Egyptian plant Cyperus papirus, of the family of the Cyperaceae, whose leaves served as a writing support to the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans
  • 1 CE

    Invention of the paper

    Invention of the paper
    The Chinese made their writing on a bamboo or silk patches. But the first system was very heavy, and the second very expensive. It was then that Cai Lun, observing that these materials were not the most suitable for manuscripts, turned his attention to the bark of the trees, to the hemp and to the undone cloths.
  • 15

    Scarcity of paper

    Scarcity of paper
    The scarcity of paper prevented the dissemination of information, but later, the abundance of paper support was not the bottleneck for the production of texts, but the low speed of the scribes
  • 16

    England

    England
    The technique of papermaking was introduced in England, in which it was a machine with a cylindrical mold. It starts with a slow movement, and this process was able to produce similar paper in appearance and feel like handmade paper
  • 600

    Expansion of paper to Korea and Japan

    Expansion of paper to Korea and Japan
    Around 600 d.C the paper arrived in Korea and Japan, countries in which it began to be manufactured manually, according to the old tradition; Koreans and Japanese were gradually perfecting this system.
  • 1453

    Invention of the printing press

    Invention of the printing press
    This problem was solved when Gutenberg invented the printing press, pointing out the moment from which the printing of texts grew exponentially.
  • 1580

    Arrival of the paper in America

    Arrival of the paper in America
    Paper production was first introduced into the Americas, by the Spanish, near Mexico City. Before the arrival of the Spaniards, paper was used as a substance by the Mayans and Aztecs

  • Paper factory in America

    Paper factory in America
    The Spaniards founded the first paper production factory in the Americas, in Culhuacan, Mexico

  • Ferchault de Reaumur

    Ferchault de Reaumur
    The Frenchman Ferchault de Reaumur suggested that wood could be used as a source of vegetable fibers for obtaining paper. The slowness in the manufacture of paper was solved at the end of the century, when the first paper production machine appeared, invented by Nicholas Robert and marketed by the Fourdrinier brothers