The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3421: Wigwam Burners
Engines of Our Ingenuity

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3421: Wigwam Burners

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 19, 20263 min

Episode: 3421 Wigwam burners and the dying breath of the mighty Douglas Fir tree. Today, wigwam burners.

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Today, wigwam burners, the University of Houston presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run and the people whose ingenuity created them.

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This is the Engines of Our Ingenuity, made possible by the friends of KUHF, Houston. Today, wigwam burners, the University of Houston presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run and the people whose ingenuity created them. them. My family left the city and moved to Roseburg, Oregon in 1946.

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And the first sites that greeted us there were huge iron teepees, black conical towers, spewing gray smoke. Roseburg was a logging town, population around 7,000 and rising. the war, now returning veterans, had increased our need for wood, and Roseburg lay on the

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edge of large stands of virgin Douglas fir. Huge trees, some a thousand years old and two hundred feet tall. Let us put aside the destruction of primeval forests for a moment. Let's just trace the process. Loggers would remove branches and cut the logs into sections. trucks then took those cut sections to mills in Roseburg.

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