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Paper was first created in China around 100 BC, which is when the history of notebook began. William Rittenhouse established the first paper mill in North America in 1690. John Tetlow was granted a patent in 1770 for a device that generated lines on paper, which required laborious manual creation (hand made). The earliest known pocket diary can be traced back to Lewis and Clark’s famous journey west in the early 1800s. The iconic marble design of the composition notebook, which made its debut in France and Germany in the 1860s, was influenced by early Chinese and Japanese printing methods. A notebook is a book or stack of paper pages that are frequently controlled and utilized for purposes like, note-taking, journaling or other composition, drawing, or scrapbooking.