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Bamboo Facts
Bamboo, which has been around for over 200 million years, is the fastest growing plant on earth. It is used to make thousands of useful things, including housing, furniture, musical instruments, art utensils, paper, and food. Bamboo is a real symbol of flexibility.
- Strong as steel, nuclear tough, and striking beauty
in both its natural and finished state, these qualities
have given bamboo a longer and more varied role in human
cultural evolution than any other plant on earth.
- The needle in Alexander Graham Bell's first phonograph
was made of bamboo.
- In 1882, Thomas Edison used bamboo as filaments in the
world's first light bulb manufacturing.
- Some bamboo can grow 18 inches per day and reaches a
height of 100 feet. A bamboo stand generates more oxygen
than an equivalent stand of trees.
- A suspension bridge on the river in China is 250 yard long,
9 foot wide and rests entirely on bamboo cables fastened
over the water. It doesn't have a single nail or piece of
iron in it.
- A typical bamboo has a tensile strength of 28,000 per square
inch vs. 23,000 for steel. That makes it one of the
strongest materials in the world when it comes to tension
structure.
- Used in ladders, scaffolding or fencing, bamboo is twice as
stable as oak, and harder than walnut and teak.
Source: "The Book of Bamboo" by David Farrelly
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