Technological developments played a large role in the commercialization of lumbering. The thick saw blades that had originally been used were very inefficient, wasting as much as a third of each log, which would be left behind as sawdust or scrap. However, in the 1870s, the British-invented band saw, with its thinner blade, soon became the preferred cutting tool in the lumber factories throughout the Great Lakes states.
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Technological developments played a large role in the commercialization of lumbering. The thick saw blades that had originally been used were very inefficient, wasting as much as a third of each log, which would be left behind as sawdust or scrap. However, in the 1870s, the British-invented band saw, with its thinner blade, soon became the preferred cutting tool in the lumber factories throughout the Great Lakes states.
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