Fourdrinier
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Fourdrinier
1830–40; named after Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier, 19th-century English papermakers
Example Sentences
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Within eight years, he had 18 so-called Fourdrinier machines in operation at mills around the country.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2013
In making paper on Fourdrinier machines, belts are used made of wire mesh in which the wires are only about .01 inch in diameter.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Fourdrinier brothers had spent £60,000 upon this venture, and the immediate result of the finished invention was bankruptcy to the unfortunate inventors.
From Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman by Sieveking, Giberne
In 1800 John Newman married Jemima Fourdrinier, and in the year 1801 John Henry, the future Cardinal, was born.
From Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman by Sieveking, Giberne
Nine plates engraved by Fourdrinier and Isaac Taylor after the designs of Du Guernier.
From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various
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