Plywood

The 1951 Britannica states (as one might guess) that veneering is a very old technique but the factory production of plywood began in the 1880's in Russia with the establishment of more than one plant, then spread to the rest of the industrialised world.

Encarta 98 states;- Plywood was used to a limited extent in ancient China and Egypt, but it was not commonly available before the 1900s. German furniture manufacturer Michael Thonet began building chairs made of veneer strips in 1830. Plywood was eventually brought to the United States from Europe in 1865 and mass manufacturing began at the U.S. Plywood Corporation in Portland, Oregon, in 1905. It remains an important export product for North American lumber companies.

However, French chronometer box lids from the late 1700's on were made of three pieces of wood, of about equal thickness. This is plywood, but the practice was not widespread. You seldom see a cracked French lid, whilst most English lids are split from end to end because of the conflict with the wood at the top end of the box.

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