Pulverizing

                        In the early 1700s, the French physicist Renede Reaumur discovered the concept of making paper from wood after watching wasps chewing wood, turning it to pulp with their saliva and spreading it on their nests, where it dried into "paper" when exposed to air. But the idea was not put into practical use until 1852, when the first wood grinding machine for pulverizing wet wood (invented by a German weaver, Frderic Keller) was employed in the production of the first news print.