TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adams,Max
TI  - The museum of the wood age
SN  - 9781788543507 (hbk.) :
AV  - SD541 
U1  - 620.12 ADA 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Apollo
KW  - Wood
KW  - Utilization
KW  - History
KW  - Woodwork
KW  - Building, Wooden
KW  - Technology
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Social & cultural history
KW  - thema
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Mechanical engineering & materials
KW  - Handicrafts, decorative arts & crafts
KW  - DIY: carpentry & woodworking
N2  - As a material, wood has no equal in strength, resilience, adaptability and availability. It has been our partner in the cultural evolution from woodland foragers to engineers of our own destiny. Tracing that partnership through tools, devices, construction and artistic expression, Max Adams casts light on our own history as an imaginative, curious, resourceful species. He begins with the material properties of various species of wood, and the influence of six basic devices - wedge, inclined plane, screw, lever, wheel, axle and pulley - before investigating the myriad ways in which wood has been worked across the millennia of human history
ER  -