This photo was taken by Cris Cordio in 2007. On the western outskirts of Kyoto, Japan lies Mount Arashiyama which contains Sagano Bamboo Forest. In the 1870s when Thomas Edison was searching for a high quality bamboo as a material for filament in his early light bulb, the governor of Kyoto recommended two sources of bamboo, one of which was Sagano bamboo. Bamboo has a higher tensile strength than many alloys of steel and can withstand earthquakes with magnitudes as high as 9.0.
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Sagano Bamboo Forest
This photo was taken by Cris Cordio in 2007. On the western outskirts of Kyoto, Japan lies Mount Arashiyama which contains Sagano Bamboo Forest. In the 1870s when Thomas Edison was searching for a high quality bamboo as a material for filament in his early light bulb, the governor of Kyoto recommended two sources of bamboo, one of which was Sagano bamboo. Bamboo has a higher tensile strength than many alloys of steel and can withstand earthquakes with magnitudes as high as 9.0.
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