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Did You Know

by Jasmine Greene



The first successful incandescent lightbulb used a filament made of carbonized bamboo.

Alexander Graham Bell used bamboo for the first phonograph needle.

Bamboo provided the first re-greening after the atomic bomb at Hiroshima.

Bamboo has a tensile strength of 28,000 psi/square inch vs. 23,000 for steel.

Bamboo falls in the grass family and is not considered a tree.

Bamboo charcoal dissipates electromagnetic waves by bouncing them around the surface of the pores. This slows down the speed of these waves and eventually eliminates them.



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