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2. Laminated veneer lumber - Wikipedia

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   The invention of laminated veneer lumber as known today can be attributed to Arthur Troutner. While glue laminated wood veneers were in use since the middle of the 19th century on a small scale for furniture and pianos, Troutner was the first to develop a laminated veneer lumber of a scale large enough to be used in construction.

3. Ancient furniture - Wikipedia

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   Sumerian records mention many kinds of wood. One example is a type of wood named Halub wood. It is described as a kind of wood used to make beds, bedframes, furniture legs, chairs, foot-stools, baskets, containers, drinking vessels, and other prestigious goods. [2] Timber, a wood which would have been imported from Lebanon, was used for ...

4. Cross-laminated timber - Wikipedia

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   By gluing layers of wood at right angles, the panel is able to achieve better structural rigidity in both directions. It is similar to plywood but with distinctively thicker laminations (or lamellae). CLT is distinct from glued laminated timber (known as glulam), which is a product with all laminations orientated in the same way. [4]

5. Pressed wood - Wikipedia

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   Once the board is at its desired thickness, the board is placed into a press, where the board is pressed and heated. This process gives pressed wood its strength [2] advantage over other engineered wood types. [3] The boards are placed in a press where the press will press down on the boards with roughly 2.8 megapascals (400 psi) of pressure. [3]

6. Wood wool - Wikipedia

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   Excelsior, or wood wool. Wood wool, known primarily as excelsior in North America, is a product made of wood slivers cut from logs. It is mainly used in packaging, for cooling pads in home evaporative cooling systems known as swamp coolers, for erosion control mats, and as a raw material for the production of other products such as bonded wood wool boards.

7. Harvey Fierstein Lost 120 lbs. on Zepbound: 'Being Fat Is Not ...

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   After gaining weight during the Covid-19 pandemic, Harvey Fierstein says that he’s now lost 120 lbs., — all thanks to weight-loss medication. In typically irreverent Fierstein fashion, the ...