Mahogany the most important wood, the most important commodity in the development of civilization over 200 years.

Furniture maker Gregg Perry explains a brief sequence to drying timber in a kiln.

Andre Charles Boulle, the greatest furniture maker France has ever known, cabinet maker to the Sun King. Tenacious work propelled him from humble beginnings to the top of the furniture world, utilizing marquetry and taking it to its zenith. But with all his brilliance his downfall was that he collected some of the most expensive art in the world causing him to financial ruin at his death.

This dissertation on The Age of Enlightenment takes us forth to all the major social, economical and political forces that propelled the 18th century to a new rebirth in the world.

This dissertation on the Age of Enlightenment takes us forth to all the major social, economical and political forces that propelled the 18th century to a new rebirth in the world.

A short dissertation of Franklin as post master general and his many advancements he bestowed on the postal system.

The story of John Harrison’s trials and tribulations in producing a marine time keeper for the exact measurement of longitude in the 18th century.

This episode explores the term corporation which means guilds in 18th century French furniture making. It extrapolates in requirements and protections of the guilds juxtapositioning the standing of the free artisans

This episode canvases the root causes and effects of the term FIGURE when referring to the sought after Visual appeal of a timber’s surface.

This episode describes various products-window panes and bottles produced at the Wistarburgh facility with an additional elaboration with table glass fixtures produced and the conditions that the typical Wistarburgh worker entailed.