Fourdrinier
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Fourdrinier
1830–40; named after Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier, 19th-century English papermakers
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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
Some authorities believe him to have been identical with the Pierre Fourdrinier who married, in 1689, Marthe Theroude.
From Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman by Giberne Sieveking
Other authorities, again, attribute the engravings I have just mentioned as having been the work of Paul Fourdrinier.
From Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman by Giberne Sieveking
The process of paper-making by the Fourdrinier machine was so fully explained in our Number for last November that it is useless now to repeat the details.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 by Various
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