. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 52.—Fourdrinier paper machine. Dilute pulp flows at left onto the endless wire mold (wc). As the upper half of the mold moves to the right, excess water drains through the mold, leaving a continuously formed length of paper. The paper is transferred to couching rolls, an endless felt, and finally to steam-heated drying drums and a paper-reel at the right-hand end of the machine. From Charles Tomlinson, ed., Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures, 2 vols. (London, 1852-1854). to take pleasure in exhibiting it, he led the way back
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 52.—Fourdrinier paper machine. Dilute pulp flows at left onto the endless wire mold (wc). As the upper half of the mold moves to the right, excess water drains through the mold, leaving a continuously formed length of paper. The paper is transferred to couching rolls, an endless felt, and finally to steam-heated drying drums and a paper-reel at the right-hand end of the machine. From Charles Tomlinson, ed., Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures, 2 vols. (London, 1852-1854). to take pleasure in exhibiting it, he led the way back to the office. Of course, I, for the time, abandoned all hopes of being shown through the shops. When about leaving, he referred to the pulp dresser, and said he must again caution me showing it to anyone. To this I replied by repeating what Sir Walter Scott had said to my uncle, Rembrandt Peale, as to his friend, "Honest Bryan Donkin, the machinist," that with such an endorsement I felt that I ran no risk, and should send the pulp dresser to him. His face brightened with a look of great satisfaction, as he said "that when Sir Walter acknowledged the authorship of the Waverly Novels, and said that for a long time it had been known to twenty people, none of whom had abused his confidence, he was proud of knowing that he was one of the twenty; he then added, the acquaintance, and, he might say, intimacy with Sir Walter had come about in a most natural way; he had frequent consultations with the Constables, the publishers of Scott's novels, on the subject of paper for that purpose, at which Sir Walter was often ; He said that Mr. Swann, in his letter to him, had expressed a belief that it would be mutually ad- vantageous to us to have a free interchange of ideas on paper machinery, and he laughingly added: "My ideas have gone to America in a machine I sent there to fill an order, and I learn they have already been ; I told him that so
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