when was paper invented?

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its for homework

Answer 1

Hey Johnny Dep,

History of Chinese Invention - The Invention of Paper

The word "paper" is derived from the word "papyrus," which was a plant found in Egypt along the lower Nile River. About 5,000 years ago, Egyptians created "sheets" of papyrus by harvesting, peeling and slicing the plant into strips. The strips were then layered, pounded together and smoothed to make a flat, uniform sheet.

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Answer 2

The word "paper" is derived from the word "papyrus," which was a plant found in Egypt along the lower Nile River. About 5,000 years ago, Egyptians created "sheets" of papyrus by harvesting, peeling and slicing the plant into strips. The strips were then layered, pounded together and smoothed to make a flat, uniform sheet.

Ancient paper pieces from the Xuanquanzhi ruins of Dunhuang in China's northwest Gansu province apparently were made during the period of Emperor Wu who reigned between 140 BC and 86 BC. Whether or not Ts'ai Lun was the actual inventor of paper, he deserves the place of honor he has been given in Chinese history for his role in developing a material that revolutionized his country.

Answer 3

Paper was invented by the Chinese about 2000 years ago. Although humans had used other flat substances upon which to write, clay tablets, hide parchment, and papyrus, from which we get the word paper, none of these are truly paper. Paper is made of randomly oriented (a felt) plant fibers. According to contemporary records of AD 105, "Under the reign of Emperor Hi-Ti, Ts'ai Lun of Lei-Yang conceived of the idea of making paper from the bark of trees....The paper was then used throughout the entire Universe." The tree was the paper mulberry, Broussonetia papyrifera. Although today the vast majority of all our paper is made from wood fibers, this paper was made from the bark, or bast, fibers. While not as cheap or as plentiful, bast fibers are much easier to process.

The bark is striped from young branches and boiled until soft. The soggy bark is then pounded to separate the fibers and remove softer tissues. The fibers are then suspended in water. A layer of felted fibers is picked up on a screen and dried to produce a sheet of paper.

Answer 4

Paper is considered to be one of the Four Great Inventions of Ancient China.

While the Chinese court official Cai Lun is widely regarded to have first described the modern method of papermaking (inspired from wasps and bees) from wood pulp in AD 105, the 2006 discovery of specimens bearing written characters in north-west China's Gansu province suggest that paper was in use by the ancient Chinese military more than 100 years before Cai in 8 BCE [1]. Archæologically however, true paper without writing has been excavated in China dating from the 2nd-century BCE.

Answer 5

There were different forms of paper back through time but one type of early paper was called papyrus and it was made by the ancient Egyptians, I believe it was made from bamboo but I'm not totally sure. You may want to try googling the history of paper.