Lumber And Its Uses

Author : R. S. Kellogg
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331906292
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Lumber and Its Uses written by R. S. Kellogg and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lumber and Its Uses Few of either the makers or the users of forest products - and this includes all of us - have any conception of the real structure of the material with which they deal. The botanist tells one tree from another by differences in foliage, flowers, fruits, and bark; the microscopist, by differences in the structure and arrangement of cells which may be visible only through a high-powered microscope; the woodsman, by general notions of appearance; the carpenter, by characteristics of texture and weight learned in the working of wood; and the ordinary user, by any combination of these methods that may have impressed him in the course of his experience. While the botanist and the microscopist use scientifically exact means of determining species of trees and kinds of wood, the lumberman, the cabinet-maker, and the man in the street use methods which, while unscientific and even impossible to describe, nevertheless often suffice for their own particular needs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.