The Properties and Uses of Wood

Abstract

THE author of this book is one of the chief workers in the Forests Products Laboratory at Madison in Wisconsin, which was established by the United States Forest Service in 1910. This laboratory is the largest and best equipped of its kind in the world, and during the fourteen years of its existence has accumulated a large mass of data concerning wood. The work is distributed amongst seven sections-timber mechanics, timber physics, wood preservatives, pulp and paper, derived products (turpentine, tar, charcoal, etc.), industrial investigation, and pathology. The results of the researches at Madison have already led in the United States to closer use of timber, to better manufacturing methods, and to prolongation of the life of wood in service. The enormous saving of material due to new methods will, it is believed, postpone the advent of the timber famine, which seemed a few years ago to be so near at hand.

The Properties and Uses of Wood.

Prepared in the Extension Division of the University of Wisconsin by Arthur Koehler. (University of Wisconsin Extension Texts: Industrial Education Series.) Pp. xiv + 354. (London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1924.) 17s. 6d. net.