Henry Fourdrinier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henry Fourdrinier

British inventor

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1766

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 03-Sep-1854

Profession: engineer, inventor

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Henry Fourdrinier

  • Henry Fourdrinier (11 February 1766 – 3 September 1854) was a British paper-making entrepreneur. He was born in 1766, the son of a paper maker and stationer, and grandson of the engraver Paul Fourdrinier, 1698-1758, sometimes mistakenly called Pierre Fourdrinier.
  • With his brother, Sealy, he commissioned the development of the Fourdrinier machine, a papermaking machine that produced continuous rolls of paper.
  • The machine is an industrialised version of the historical hand paper-making method, which could not satisfy the demands of developing modern society for large quantities of printing and writing materials.
  • A patent was granted on 24 July 1806, for a machine that could make a long continuous web of paper.
  • This had the dual advantage of considerably higher productivity plus production in roll form, for applications such as wallpaper printing.
  • The range of cut paper sizes was also extended as it was not limited by the frame or deckle size of hand made paper. The invention cost £60000, and caused the brothers to go bankrupt.
  • Due to various laws, it was difficult to protect the patent on the machine, and the new system was widely adopted but with no benefit to the inventors.
  • In 1814, two machines were made in Peterhof, Russia, by order of the Russian emperor on the condition £700 would be paid to Fourdrinier every year for ten years — but, despite petitioning Tsar Nicholas, no money was ever paid.
  • In 1839, a petition was brought before parliament, and in 1840, £7000 was paid to Fourdrinier and his family.Fourdrinier died in 1854, at the age of 88.

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