Originally Posted by numan
My own house is from the 1950's, ... before toxic glueboard construction.
Ya got me there, noomie, what's glueboard?

Do you mean plywood ?
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The ancient Egyptians were the first people known to make use of plywood. Egypt lacks fine wood, and around 3500 BCE, the Egyptians began conserving the wood they did have by gluing thin sheets of high quality wood over lower quality, more readily available wood.
The ancient Chinese used a similar technique in furniture making, and the British and French of the 1600s and 1700s are known to have experimented with different types of plywood...
In the mid 1800s, the Swedish architect Immanuel Nobel invented the rotary lathe...


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