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Old 06-26-2021, 04:01 PM   #80 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by redpoint5
There's got to be a better way to build than how we've been doing it the last hundred years.
2x4s and wire nails date to the rebuilding after Great Chicago fire about 140 years ago. Fuller's first failed invention was the Stockade Block.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockade_Building_System

That was 1922-27, about a century ago.
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