The Egyptians were the first who thought about sticking several thinner layers of wood together to make one thick layer. Around 3500 B.C. they did it gluing thin layers of wood over low quality wood and invented the prototype of plywood. Immanuel Nobel, father of Alfred Nobel (the founder of Nobel Prize) is considered the inventor of plywood. Nobel found out that several thinner layers of wood bonded together would be stronger than one thick layer
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Who invented plywood
