The first paper-machine man. Marchant Warrell began his career at around the age of 14 with an apprenticeship at Frogmore Mill in the late eighteenth [...]

Known as the author of the definitive work on John Dickinson, ‘The Endless Web’, Joan Evans has her own illustrious story. Born in 1893, she [...]

The second son of John Evans and a great-nephew of John Dickinson, Lewis had mathematical and scientific interests which ideally suited him to a career [...]

He was the eldest son of Sir John Evans but was not prepared to enter the business instead pursuing a remarkable career as an archaeologist. [...]

John Evans was the son of a clergyman schoolmaster who was all set for an academic career and about to enter Brasenose College when he [...]

John Dickinson founded a giant business empire employing many thousands of people world-wide at its peak. He started his working life by training as a [...]

So how did an idea developed in France by Nicolas-Louis Robert become the first paper machine in Hertfordshire, England? Ledger Didot having acquired the French [...]

The original concept of a continuous papermaking machine was the invention of a Frenchman, Nicolas-Louis Robert. He worked at a paper mill near Paris and [...]

Nicolas Louis Robert was born in 1761, in Paris. A frail child born to older parents, he attended a school with a strong focus on [...]