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John Rudolphus Booth (April 5, 1827 - December 8, 1925) was a Canadian lumber tycoon and railroad baron.He controlled logging rights for large tracts of forest land in central Ontario, and built the Canada Atlantic Railway (from Georgian Bay via Ottawa to Vermont) to extract his logs and to export lumber and grain to the United States and Europe.
NCSU Inside Wood project; Reproduction of The American Woods: exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text by Romeyn B. Hough; US Forest Products Laboratory, "Characteristics and Availability of Commercially Important Wood" from the Wood Handbook Archived 2021-01-18 at the Wayback Machine PDF 916K; International Wood ...
Two main opposing forces affect a tree's height; one pushes it upward while the other holds it down. By analyzing the interplay between these forces in coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens), a team of biologists led by George Koch of Northern Arizona University calculated the theoretical maximum tree height or the point at which opposing forces balance out and a tree stops growing.
Currently the tallest human-constructed wooden structure in the world (free-standing, though not a building). Randsburg Wash Target Test Towers (Buildings 70021 and 70022) [3] 109.73 n/a Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake: 1951 As of February 2023, the second current tallest human-constructed free-standing wooden structures in the world.
The coniferous Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is the tallest tree species on earth.. The world's superlative trees can be ranked by any factor. Records have been kept for trees with superlative height, trunk diameter (girth), canopy coverage, airspace volume, wood volume, estimated mass, and age.
Mystic Timbers is a wooden roller coaster located at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio.Constructed by Great Coasters International and designed by Skyline Design, the roller coaster opened in the Rivertown section of the park on April 15, 2017.
The tree was named after the titan Hyperion from Greek mythology. [8] [7] Hyperion is estimated to be between 600 and 800 years old [1] [9] [10] and contain 530 m 3 (18,600 cu ft) of wood. [2] Coast redwoods in Redwood National Park. The exact location of Hyperion is nominally secret but is available via internet search. [11]
Upon first seeing the tree in 1872, Hooker declared the tree to be the largest of its species in the known world. [2] Since then other valley oaks have been found of similar size. On January 7, 1958, the Sacramento Bee reported that in 1921 the Hooker Oak was over 110 ft (34 m) tall and estimated that 7,885 people could stand under its canopy ...