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bend′ing ma-chine′. Wood is bent for many purposes: ship-timbers, furniture, plows, and other tools of agriculture, sleigh-runners, carriagebows and wheel-rims, hoops, staves, etc. The Vienna bent-wood furniture is very elegant and light, and the Gardner chair-seats of bent and perforated veneers are both strong and well-looking. The use of heat as an agent in bending wood was known to the ancients. In the Argonautics of Valerius Flaccus, we read of the building of the renowned ship Argo. The passage has been rendered thus:— The bustling throng of men, and groves he sees Hewn down, and axes sounding through the shores; With the thin saw how Tiphys slits the pine, And joins the sides, he views: how stubborn beams Relent and soften to the suppling fire. Book I:, verse 125. Theocritus, the Greek poet, describes the chariot-maker bending a heated wooden tire to form the circumference of a chariot-wheel. The wood is described to be that of a wild fig-tree. The Egyptia<