Bamboo Flooring & Bamboo Floor Product Sources
 

Recommended Resources

Let us shop for you, Get a FREE Quote on Bamboo Floors from several sources 

FAST FACTS> • A typical bamboo has a tensile strength of 28,000 per square inch compared to 23,000 for steel. • In late 19th Century Europe, bicycle frames typically were made of bamboo. • Bamboo survived the Hiroshima atomic blast closer to ground zero than any other life form. • In 1882, Thomas Edison used bamboo filaments in the world’s first light bulb manufacturing. • The needle in Alexander Graham Bell’s first phonograph was made of bamboo. China has more than 1.6 million square miles of bamboo under cultivation and is considered a great natural resource. This grass grows to 40 feet and it is a major CO2 converter and has no known enemies. Even man cannot – so far at least – get ahead of the bamboo forests’ growth cycle. Excerpts from “The Book of Bamboo”: by David Farrell According to David Farrell's book, “The Book of Bamboo”: Let us shop for you,