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The Structure of Timbers in Relation to their Uses*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Frank W. Jane
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Abstract

“ The last thing I purposed to speak of, is, Those several Qualities of Timber or of Trunks, by which they are fitted for Mechanical Use.…. The Visible Causes whereof are observable. Partly in the Structure of the several Parts; sc. the Insertions, Sap-Vessels and Aer-Vessels; as to the Number, Size or Position of any of them. And partly, in the Nature of the Parts; I mean such as is manifest to sense. According to our clear and distinct observing of all which Causes, we may understand, Wherefore any Wood is made use of for any certain purpose. And also, wherein fitly to apply it to further Use.”

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 38 , Issue 277 , January 1934, pp. 46 - 58
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1934

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Reprinted by kind permission from the Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club, October, 1933, Vol. XVI.

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