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Wood Technology:
"Wood technology has advanced the basic economic case for wood to such an important position in the advancing technical world that we can no longer afford to use wood in the careless way we have in the past-- to put it in houses for termites to eat up, or a possible fire to consume. Even if we could, worldwide technology forces our technical hand as it never has before, the rest of the world is now industrializing and is starting the most advanced World War II levels of technology and not at our 1861 or 1890 or 1917 level. Industrial technology is born of latent knowledge and is not an inventory of obsolete machinery, so wood is in a very new historical position. How does that affect the historical wooden house picture?
“As children of the pioneers also came along to build a house-- or their grandchildren wanted to-- there was no longer much wood on the farm. They had to go increasing distances for it. Finally they went out of the state for it. Today they hate to send 1,000 to 5,000 miles for most of their building wood.”
“They were using it simply by habit because it was originally handy and suddenly they had exhausted that supply. Long ago”
