General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

3

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

ALL METAL CONSTRUCTION *weight is only an estimate*

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

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Width

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Height

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Thickness

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Weight

1360.8

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Industrial Technology

Category

Industrial equipment

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Buckton

Country

England

State/Province

Unknown

City

Leeds

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Unknown

Period

used until 1968

Canada

This artifact was acquired from Crown Assets, and originally was used at the Forest Products Laboratories, a unit of the Dominion Forest Service. The Labs were founded in 1913 in Montreal in cooperation with McGill. From the 1920s to the 1950s, forest products, entomology, and pathology was the main focus of the Dominion Forest and later Canadian Forest Services. New Laboratories were established in Vancouver in 1918, and in Ottawa in 1927. The Ottawa lab became the head office. In the 1960s the research on forest products was expanded. The lab, located in Vancouver was later renamed Forintek.

Function

To test strength of wood products

Technical

The artifact was used to study timber mechanics and physics. The laboratories worked closely with industry, with the goal to promote more and better wood products.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

N/A

Missing

N/A

Finish

Unknown

Decoration

N/A