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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.
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The paper used in U.S. currency is produced on a Fourdrinier machine at a plant located in the state of Georgia.
North Korea and the Supernote Enigma : Coin Collecting News 2008
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The paper used in U.S. currency is produced on a Fourdrinier machine at a plant located in the state of Georgia.
North Korea and the Supernote Enigma : Coin Collecting News 2008
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Fourdrinier, of whom no mention at all is made in the _Miscellanea
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking
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In _Civil Architecture_, by Chambers, it is mentioned that the plates were engraved by "old Rooker, old Fourdrinier, and others," thus seeming to imply that there was more than one Fourdrinier then in England.
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking
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Perhaps the most interesting of all the Fourdrinier family was the Henry
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking
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Fourdrinier, the eldest brother to the mother of Francis Newman.
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking
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Fourdrinier who married, in 1689, Marthe Theroude.
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking
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Fourdrinier, that the family fled from France to Groningen, in Holland.
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking
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The process of paper-making by the Fourdrinier machine was so fully explained in our Number for last
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The Fourdrinier brothers had spent £60,000 upon this venture, and the immediate result of the finished invention was bankruptcy to the unfortunate inventors.
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking
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