The researchers suggest that the house was once topped by wood or other material the builders were able to find.
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By making it easy to cut wood or other material, the saw allowed humans to build everything from simple shelters to vast skyscrapers, and to harvest forests.
"As a living material, wood is both challenging and inspiring, " Kantonen says.
In his woodwork he tried to bring out those souls rather than treat the wood as so much raw material.
Meanwhile, the US Forest Service has been deriving cellulose nanocrystals from wood pulp extract to create a material that's stronger than Kevlar and carbon fiber.
Often the piece looks rustic rather than polished, says Mr. Smith, who favors tables made of a local material, such as wood from trees indigenous to the area.
He admits that it is not simple to pull the sugars out of non-food material like pulp or wood waste, but says that even factoring in the extraction process, the final cost should be lower than using corn starch or sugar cane, both of which are much higher-priced commodities.
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The next phase is to scale up the manufacturing process, with the aim of making the material rather as you would convert wood-pulp to newsprint.
The fact that wood is the most eco-friendly building material is an obvious reason for its use, but as Kantonen explains its aesthetic qualities are being rediscovered and appreciated again.
The title of his first exhibition devoted to this material, "Statuary in Wood by African Savages: The Root of Modern Art" (1914) captures both the innovation and the contradictions of this debut.
We also spotted this ingenious wood speaker system that amplifies music using the properties of the material it's made of and needs no electricity at all.
The Commission will vote on the question of whether dumped and subsidized imports of multilayered wood flooring (MLWF) from China are causing or threatening material injury to the U.S. MLWF industry.
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In their simplest form, a piece of wood is spun around a fixed axis, and pieces of the material are chipped off with a blade.
And while the company says it is able to be drilled, tapped or screwed, its material properties are unknown compared to traditional materials like real wood or steel.
Matter falling into them swirls around, and atoms rub together generating heat "like spinning a stick against another piece of wood to start a fire" and producing enough heat to make the material radiate across the electromagnetic spectrum.
They know what material needs to be removed by their razor sharp tool and what wood remains.
Interior walls that look like hardwood paneling are in fact made of paper-thin wood veneer on top of Nomex honeycomb, a lightweight paper-and-resin material normally found in jet airplanes.
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