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== History ==
Initially, paper was ruled by hand, sometimes using templates.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wight|first=C.|title=R - Glossary for the British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts|url=https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/GlossR.asp|access-date=4 January 2021|website=www.bl.uk|archive-date=16 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200716094502/https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/GlossR.asp|url-status=live}}</ref> Scribes could rule their paper using a "hard point," a sharp implement which left embossed lines on the paper without any ink or color,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wight|first=C.|title=H - Glossary for the British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts|url=https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/GlossH.asp#HARDPOINT|access-date=4 January 2021|website=www.bl.uk|archive-date=25 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225060740/http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/GlossH.asp#HARDPOINT|url-status=live}}</ref> or could use "metal point," an implement which left colored marks on the paper, much like a graphite pencil, though various
On 15 June 1770, English inventor John Tetlow patented a "machine for ruling paper for music and other purposes."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Woodcroft|first=Bennet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rJ2fvayRdVgC&q=%22machine+for+ruling+paper+for+music+and+other+purposes%22&pg=PA563|title=Alphabetical Index of Patentees of Inventions: From March 2, 1617 (14 James I.) to October 1, 1852 (16 Victoriæ)|date=1854|publisher=Queen's Printing Office|language=en|access-date=14 August 2021|archive-date=24 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230224201143/https://books.google.com/books?id=rJ2fvayRdVgC&q=%22machine+for+ruling+paper+for+music+and+other+purposes%22&pg=PA563|url-status=live}}</ref> A later machine was invented by William Orville Hickok in the mid-19th century.<ref>{{Cite web|date=26 January 2016|title=Bookbinders' Specialties, Ruling Machine, O-A Striker Machine - The W.O. Hickok Manufacturing Company|url=http://hickokmfg.com/history.htm|access-date=4 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126103030/http://hickokmfg.com/history.htm|archive-date=26 January 2016}}</ref>
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