Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How do people make paper out of trees, and why not use something else? – Cooper H., age 6, St. Louis, Missouri Paper is an ...

Paper is a ubiquitous part of everyday life, but how is it made, and where did it originate? Ancient Egyptians made an early version of plant-based paper using papyrus — which is where the word "paper ...

Is it possible to make paper without trees? Australian entrepreneurs Kevin Garcia and Jon Tse were determined to find out. They spent a year researching a possible alternative that could serve as a ...

These are northern trees, and the farther north they grow the more dense is their wood content. So we find the paper industry of North America, or at least that great part of it which provides ...

The history of Ohio’s Scioto River Valley in nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century cannot be understood without understanding the role of papermaking in the area. Southeastern Ohio is an ...