The invention of paper is credited to a Chinese government official and scholar by the name of Ts’ai Lun who happened to stumble upon his own innovation whilst grinding up plants in the fields. He was randomly experimenting with mulberry bark, linen and hemp, not knowing that he had just mastered the technique to creating paper when what lay in front of him was nothing more than a big pile of wet mush. By grinding the different plants, Lun had somehow separated the fibers of the vegetation and finished by spreading the mixture out on a mat made of coarse cloth and bamboo frame. He had innovated paper that day and even though archaeological evidence suggests paper may have been made earlier, Ts’ai Lun’s efforts were the first ones ever recorded down in history. However, historians debate whether or not he built upon the work of others or thought of the process single-handedly. Nevertheless, Ts’ai Lun did discover that wood could be broken apart and crafted into paper, like other organic materials. Typically, the “recipe” or basic formula for paper includes having wood fiber, water and kinetic energy combined together either manually or through advanced machinery, as reflective of today’s society, and grinded efficiently. Paper was invented to write on since it proved to be much more convenient than the day’s papyrus, cave walls and wet clay. It was regarded as a most remarkable innovation by Ts’ai Lun considering that there is hardly a day when people in the 21^st century don’t use paper in their daily lives!