Episode 6

Classroom Supply #2: Lined Paper

https://anchor.fm/rachel383/episodes/Classroom-Supply2-Lined-paper-e4t73g

This episode takes a look at another common school supply, lined paper. Listen to find out how long it has been around and how recycling has been involved in the process in the past and the present. Get ready to find out about a connection between paper and mummies, and wasps.

Sources:

“From Thomas Jefferson to David Rittenhouse, 19 March 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-19-02-0148. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 19, 24 January–31 March 1791, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974, pp. 584–585.]

https://books.google.com/books?id=vQ9HAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA744&lpg=PA744&dq=tetlow+ruling+machine&source=bl&ots=RUCZw5Xzvy&sig=ACfU3U3xcS-mJXdAeARWYMtIySESUBx2_Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiD-bqXlfHjAhUNY6wKHWVtAhkQ6AEwEXoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=tetlow%20ruling%20machine&f=false

Images of Thomas Jefferson’s drawing on graph paper:

https://www.masshist.org/thomasjeffersonpapers/doc?id=arch_N438&mode=lgImg

https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/drawing-paper

Paper before 1914:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-manufacture-of-paperpaper-made/

https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1124&context=charleston

https://books.google.com/books?id=QiMTbC0MkfYC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=why+rag+shortage+for+paper&source=bl&ots=EvUH-Nn5ce&sig=ACfU3U3fQ0oZ1Is_e34GPifXBBpuuCS4aw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiahfzOvPTjAhUD-6wKHYmvCWk4ChDoATABegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=why%20rag%20shortage%20for%20paper&f=false

About paper today:

Click to access How+Are+Trees+Grown+for+Paper.pdf

Click to access fs_2.pdf

https://www.afandpa.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/paper-as-a-sustainable-choice.pdf?sfvrsn=9b8db0ab_0