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 ABOUT BAMBOO:
Bamboo has been cultivated for more than 4,000 years in China. It has
been used in everyday life in Asia for centuries. Bamboo is a food, a
“paper like” medium for messaging, for art works, utensils, furniture,
vessels, decoration and more recently as building materials including,
flooring, veneer and paneling, decoration as in moldings and wall
coverings and pallets and shipping crates.
According to David Farrelly in his book, “The Book of Bamboo”:
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typical bamboo has a tensile strength of 28,000 per square inch
compared to 23,000 for steel.
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In
late 19th Century Europe, bicycle frames typically were made of
bamboo.
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Bamboo survived the Hiroshima atomic blast closer to ground zero
than any other life form.
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In
1882, Thomas Edison used bamboo filaments in the world’s first light
bulb manufacturing.
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The needle in Alexander Graham Bell’s first phonograph was made of
bamboo.
China has more than 1.6 million square miles of bamboo under cultivation
and is considered a great natural resource. This grass grows to 40 feet
and it is a major carbon dioxide converter with has no known enemies. |