256 TIMBERS AND THEIE USES 



and hat linings. The lightness of cork has 

 especially recommended it for artificial limbs, 

 handles, net floats and life preservers ; while 

 the uniform texture and the ease with which 

 it may be shaped have made it valuable to 

 model makers and even to turners and carvers. 

 "Although cork was known to the ancient 

 Greeks and Romans, and there is record of its 

 use by them for the soles of shoes and as stoppers 

 for wine vessels, it has been generally used onlv 

 within the last few hundred years." 



