The History of Paper

3,000 BCE
Egyptians manufacture papyrus from overlapping strips of sedge plant pith.
105: CE Chinese official Ts'ai Lun creates a sheet of paper using the inner bark of trees, fishnets,old rags, and hemp waste. Certain paper is still made from rags today.
3rd Century: Woodblock printing in China (Wikipedia)
751: Papermaking reaches Samarkand, in Central Asia
793: Papermaking begins in Baghdad during the golden age of Islamic culture. Papermaking soon reaches the frontiers of Europe.
14th Century: Documentation of paper mills in Europe including Spain, Italy, France and Germany
15th Century: Gutenberg brings profit to printing by inventing "the first complete printing system." His press, with its metal moveable type, could produce 3,600 pages per workday.
1774: Chlorine is discovered. It would eventually be used to bleach paper. Include articles on topics of interest to your readers, relevant news and events. If you find an interesting article on the Web, you can easily ask the author's permission to summarize the article and link to it from your newsletter. Drive traffic to your website by entering teaser text for the article with a link to your website for readers to view the full text.
19th Century: A machine that transforms wood pulp to a final paper product is realized. The paper industry is gradually relieved of its centuries-old dependency upon cotton and linen rags. Large-scale paper production becomes possible. The Fourdrinier machine remains the basis for modern papermaking.