Detroit is now home to an outpost of TechShop, the Silicon Valley innovation incubator where people of all skill levels can use industrial tools and equipment to build their own products.

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The tools of industrial fishing (drift nets, bottom trawls, and longlines) compensate for the diminishment of marine life that they cause by taking what little is left all the more intensively.

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He bragged he would become the Sam's Club of industrial supplies, offering discounted prices for halogen lights, hand tools, abrasives and the like.

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Now those tools are available their use in economics pioneered by specialists in industrial organisation and trade so economists can breathe new vigour back into the lifeless body of geography.

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Bringing in designers equipped with tools like laser cutters, he transformed his booth into a miniature industrial design center and cranked out a series of prototypes for actual products.

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Since then, the China market for machine tools has grown at approximately 20 percent annually, while the markets in Germany and most industrial economies have been flat to declining.

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Over the past generation, Siemens engineering tools, including its industrial software, have been the backbone of Iran's industrial and military infrastructure.

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Alongside them are a series of electronic test tools designed by George McCain and Joseph Ferrante for the Fluke Corporation of Everett, Washington, presented as industrial devices with all the simplicity of minimalist sculpture.

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