The Wood Age: How one material shaped the whole of human history

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Is it safe? - When buying wooden toys, it’s important you know what you’re getting to keep your children safe. Ensure you buy from respectable retailers and brands who have committed to conform to (or exceed) toy safety standards. This includes using non-toxic paints that are completely safe for children. To save this article to your Google Drive account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Google Drive account. The first man-made plastic was invented by metallurgist Alexander Parkes, who exhibited his Parkesine nitrocellulose compound (intended to be a substitute for ivory) at the Great London Exposition of 1862, where it won a bronze medal. The first fully-synthetic plastic was Bakelite, invented in New York in 1907 by Leo Baekeland, who also gave us the term ‘plastics’. The rest is history, with the material becoming a convenient and economic alternative for just about any engineering material imaginable: metals, wood, ceramics, stone or glass. Wooden with Digger Phelps in 1973, after UCLA beat Notre Dame for their NCAA-record 61st straight win

John Robert Wooden was born on October 14, 1910, in Hall, Indiana, [8] the son of Roxie (1887–1959) and Joshua Wooden (1882–1950), [9] and moved with his family to a small farm in Centerton in 1918. [10] He had three brothers: [4] Maurice, Daniel, and William, [9] and two sisters, one (unnamed) who died in infancy, [9] and another, Harriet Cordelia, who died from diphtheria at the age of two. [9]I will probably re-read this when my eyes return to normal-dry versus Saharra-Desert-dry. And if I do, I'm sure I'll have lots of fun facts to share with you to entice you to read the book. I will leave you with one that I retained from my listening: The Stone Age is the first in a three-phase framework of human prehistory – the others being Bronze and Iron – a phrase coined in the 19th century by Danish scholar Christian J Thomsen, who made the assumption that each period was technologically more complex than that which preceded it. Today, this is seen as an oversimplification that emphasises the evolution of technology above other factors such as the development of language, agriculture and society.

John Wooden and Steve Jamison (2009) Coach Wooden's Leadership Game Plan for Success: 12 Lessons for Extraordinary Performance and Personal Excellence, McGraw-Hill Professional. ISBN 978-0-07-162614-9 Golf Digest lists Wooden as one of four people to score both a double eagle and a hole in one in the same round of golf. [74] The feat was accomplished in 1947 at the South Bend Country Club in South Bend, Indiana. In 2000, Wooden was honoured with the "Lombardi Award of Excellence" from the Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation. The award was created to honour Coach Lombardi's legacy, and is awarded annually to an individual who exemplifies the spirit of the Coach. Three of Wooden's former players would take over the program and leave within a few years. Gene Bartow, Gary Cunningham, Larry Brown, and Larry Farmer were the four coaches who entered and left UCLA in the nine years following Wooden. One former UCLA head coach, former ESPN analyst and former St. John's head coach Steve Lavin (fired from UCLA in 2003), has said "The mythology and pathology of UCLA basketball isn't going to change" due to Wooden's legacy and believes that every basketball coach will eventually be fired or forced out from UCLA. [78] However, there are problems with this high-tech approach. For a start, none of these wood products are carbon neutral. Energy is needed to harvest, transport, and machine the wood, for instance. And the most energy-intensive step in all modern wood production is kiln drying.Even the Industrial Revolution did not spell the end of wood. Wrought iron allowed metal joints to be incorporated into larger wooden structures, while the invention of industrial machines gave us mass-produced nails and screws, making everyone a carpenter. Wood pulp fed a booming newspaper and book industry and we engineered wood into new materials such as plywood, chipboard, cardboard, and, more recently, laminated wood (glulam) and crossed-fibre laminates that are used to make the enormous beams seen in wooden high-rise buildings. Looking ahead, high-tech uses of wood have the potential to replace steel and concrete though I appreciated Ennos's scepticism. Such wood products are energy-consuming to fabricate, while technofixes "continue to move our juggernaut economy even further along the path of unlimited economic growth" (p. 272). Instead, he has several suggestions by which we could make trees part of our lives again and so undo the disconnect that has grown between people and forests. This is a non-fic about the role of wood and trees for our evolution, pre-history, history, present and future. It is well-written with a lot of info with sources in academic research. I read it as a Buddy Read for August 2021 at Non Fiction Book Club group. John Wooden and Steve Jamison (2010) The Wisdom of Wooden: My Century On and Off the Court, McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN 978-0071751162

Celebration of John Wooden's life and legacy in commemoration of his 100th birthday". Daily Bruin. ASUCLA Media. October 15, 2010. Archived from the original on June 14, 2011 . Retrieved October 18, 2010. Jaques of London have been trusted providers of Toys and Games for over 220 years. Why buy your wooden toys anywhere else?On February 3, 1984, Wooden was inducted into the Indiana State University Athletic Hall of Fame. [58] John Wooden Recreation Centre on the campus of UCLA There are changes to wood that make it tough as steel. The new skyscrapers and apartment buildings constructed from glulam and CFL are up to five times lighter than ones made of conventional reinforced concrete. This means they use less energy to build and need shallower foundations, so that the amount of embodied energy they contain can be as low as 20 percent that in a normal building.

Nater, Swen (2006). John Wooden's UCLA Offense. Canada: Human Kinetics. pp.xvi. ISBN 978-0-7360-6180-3. UCLA's 47-game winning streak ended on January 20 when the Bruins were defeated by Houston and All-American Elvin Hayes in the Astrodome 71–69 in front of the largest college basketball crowd in NCAA history (52,693). The showdown was the nation's first nationally televised regular season college basketball game. The game was known as the Game of the Century. Lew Alcindor was limited from having been hospitalized the week before with a scratched cornea. The Bruins, at full strength, avenged the loss in a rematch with Houston in the NCAA semi-finals, as they beat the Cougars 101–69. UCLA then defeated North Carolina in the title game to become the only team to win consecutive NCAA championships twice. [49] a b c "John Wooden, former UCLA coach, dies". Associated Press. June 5, 2010 . Retrieved November 23, 2010.The benefit of bronze was simply that it was harder than copper, as well as being more ductile and stiffer. As uses for bronze increased, metal casting evolved, resulting in the production of better tools, weapons, armour and materials. Archaeological discoveries of bronze artefact hoards also suggest that the material represented wealth in the form of stored value as well as status. Iron: from quality to utility Iron Age: c1200 BC-100 AD Although steel has been known to civilisations globally for up to 4,000 years, it wasn’t until the arrival of the Bessemer process in the mid-19th century that it could be mass-produced in industrial quantities. After his coaching career ended, UCLA continued to honour Wooden with the title of Head Men's Basketball Coach Emeritus. [55] On November 17, 2006, Wooden was recognised for his impact on college basketball as a member of the founding class of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. He was one of five people—along with Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, Dean Smith and Dr. James Naismith—who were selected to represent the inaugural class. [56] In 2009, he was inducted into the Missouri Valley Conference Athletics Hall of Fame in St. Louis. Coach Wooden was the ninth honouree in the Missouri Valley Conference's Lifetime Achievement category. [26] Wooden said the honour he was most proud of was "Outstanding Basketball Coach of the U.S". by his denomination, the Christian Church. [49]