A  Science and Technology Odyssey In Cyberspace-Time 
20000 BC to 1800 AD
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Paper

" In AD 105, the Chinese court official, Ts'ai Lun, (if we are to believe the chronicle recording the claim) invented papermaking from textile waste using rags. This can be considered as the birth of paper as we know it today.

Later, Chinese papermakers developed a number of specialities such as sized, coated and dyed paper, and paper protected against ravages by insects, but they had great problems satisfying the growing demand for paper for governmental administration. They also used a new fibre-yielding plant - bamboo - which they de-fibred by cooking in lye" from History of Paper 

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