In an age of mass production, it is a delight to visit these family-owned wineries.
Despite the unforeseen level of interest, Dash says he has no plans to go into the serious business of mass production any time soon.
He often cites instead the free-market ideas of Adam Smith to support his claim that it was the profit motive that inspired America's feats of mass production.
That concept of 'merchandise on demand' turns the idea of mass production on its head, but British Web site Kings of Neon takes the idea one stage further.
Wedgwood also grasped the significance of mass production and marketing.
Of course, the big boys like Trek and Giant can't be faulted here, the nature of mass production makes it impossible for them to finely tune a frame for each individual.
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It'll likely take years before we'll get to the point of mass production of these things, but in the future we could finally say that batteries do indeed grow from trees.
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These perspectives evolved through the age of mass production.
At its peak, hundreds of firms across the country were making something like two million bicycles a year, which was an astonishing number at the time given the primitive state of mass production.
The idea has even emerged of crafting as a form of political activism -- the term "Craftivism" has been coined to describe the idea of 'making your own' as a statement against runaway consumerism and the homogeneity of mass production.
This could be possible as there is tremendous potential for economies of scale, both in terms of mass production, which reduces the cost of each turbine, and in terms of the construction and management of vast wind farms offshore where there are few limits on available acreages.
When it comes to a cure, Miss Zuboff and Mr Maxmin see the answer partly in the structure of corporations, which they regard as too narcissistic, too stuck in old concepts of mass production, even too male-dominated (real men, it seems, won't let the customer come first).
Ultimately, it wasn't Protestant conscience that eradicated slavery, but the ascendance of mass-production lines and innovations such as the steam engine.
More than almost any other functioning industrial site in Britain, Dagenham evokes a nostalgia for the age of mass-production and metal bashing.
Everywhere in the developed world, the decline of mass-production industries has put pressure on the roles and incomes of working-class and middle-class men.
Once tested for possible use as an estrogen replacement, BPA was found to be of better use in the mass production of polycarbonate plastic.
One of the big goals of asteroid mining startup Planetary Resources is the mass production of space telescopes for both its prospecting missions and to sell to customers.
The company plans to begin investment in the line, which will focus on WRGB OLED evaporation process, in the first quarter of 2013, with mass production scheduled for the first half of 2014 at a monthly capacity of 26, 000 input sheets.
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At the beginning of his mass-production assembly line, Ford was producing one complete, fully functional car every 90 minutes.
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We can bristle at the idea of chains and mass production, with their homogeneity, predictability, and constant genuflection to the value-for-money god.
In 1994, German luxury car-maker BMW announced the purchase of Rover from British Aerospace, ending nearly a century of independent mass car production in Britain.
China is miles ahead of my country in this area, but they have slightly different reasons (quick and mass production of products etc.).
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Amid disputes whether the late Steve Jobs would have approved of the product, WSJ.com reported that LG Display and AU Optronics began mass production of what will be the 7.85-inch liquid crystal display.
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In April 2004 E Ink's technology was approved for mass production of Sony's electronic books.
Things have improved a bit since then, but mass production of anything useful is decades off.
Mass production of its 20nm-class 64Gb 3-bit NAND designed on advanced toggle NAND architecture is anticipated for early next year.
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Mass production of such jerseys, often only faintly resembling anything made on the island, depresses the price of the genuine articles.
Young companies that were entering mass production of their technologies in order to compete effectively with larger rivals went bust, including Solyndra and Abound Solar.
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Officials at the component suppliers, who declined to be named, said this week that Apple has told them to prepare for mass production of the smaller tablet.
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