HWood is a pleasant material. He feels warm, has a likeable charisma and is a model when it comes to ecological compatibility and therefore sustainability. The fact that people have been concerned with wood and its properties for ages is due not only to its high calorific value but also to the fact that alternative materials were hardly or not at all available. Bowls, mortars, spears, rafters and sturdy dugouts were made from wood. Carved from solid material, as the technician says. This is laborious, so the ancient Egyptians were already thinking about more elegant ways to shape wood according to their own specifications. They found that this versatile fiber material can be bent without too much effort after a long steam bath. And without breaking.
The cellulose in wood gives the material its tensile strength. It becomes stretchable through pressure vapor deposition. The lignin, which is responsible for the compressive strength, becomes so soft that wooden sticks can be bent in the direction of the grain. This is a complex process that the carpenter Michael Thonet, who came from Boppard in the Rhineland, perfected at the beginning of the nineteenth century after much experimentation to such an extent that a previously unknown mass production of furniture, especially chairs, could be set up. In the first Thonet factory in Koritschan, Moravia, 300 workers produced 200 pieces of furniture every day. This included the famous coffee house chair based on model 14, which was dismantled into individual parts, similar to today's Ikea chairs, and shipped all over the world.
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