Questions tagged [manufacturing]
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Do "Beats headphones contain metal 'weights' to make them appear better quality"?
I was surprised by a Redditor comment (nearly 5k score) today: They made beats headphones with weights so they were heavier to make people think they were higher quality. And when I googled it I ...
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Was an invisible electrostatic wall generated at a plastic tape factory in August 1980?
Amasci.com reported in 1996:
David Swenson of 3M Corporation describes an anomaly where workers encountered a strange "invisible wall" in the area under a fast-moving sheet of electrically ...
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Does the US no longer make antibiotics?
On June 25th, 2020 Tucker Carlson claimed during his show:
The most powerful nation on earth no longer makes antibiotics.
He's obviously referring to the USA. Is the USA no longer manufacturing ...
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Does Australia produce unique 'specialty steel'?
Wikipedia quotes Bob Woodward's Fear : Trump in the White House, writing:
Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull successfully lobbied President Trump to get an exemption at the 2017 G20 ...
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Was the Ford Model T black because of the speed black paint dries?
In this BBC news article labour historian and lecturer Steve Babson says:
The reason the Ford Model-T was black, was because it was the only
paint that would dry fast enough to keep pace with the ...
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Were the vast majority of lost manufacturing jobs since 2000 lost due to automation?
There has been a lot of discussion here in the US about manufacturing and about bringing back jobs from overseas.
While interviewing US presidential candidate Andrew Yang on the Waking Up podcast, ...
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Are retail clothing prices going down significantly enough to impact the used clothing market?
This article at Bloomberg claims that "...new clothes are becoming as cheap as used ones, and poor countries are turning their backs on the secondhand trade". It also says that "...The tide of ...
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Are 550 people still losing their jobs at "Trump's" Carrier plant?
Donald Trump made saving the jobs at Carrier a big campaign rallying point. On December 06, 2016 New York Times reported from Chuck Jones, the president of United Steelworkers Local 1999, that
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Does 80-90% of the environmental and health damage a car causes come from manufacturing?
Claim from the video The First 3D-Printed Supercar:
How we make them [cars] is much more important than how we fuel them and whether they have a tailpipe or not. 80 to 90 percent or more of the ...
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Do different locks ever have the same key?
There is a specific pattern for each lock and key made in the world. A specific key can only open a specific lock which has the same pattern in which the key can fit.
This thread here suggests that ...
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Are speedometers designed to read high?
Via word-of-mouth, I have twice heard claims that speedometers are deliberately designed to read high, so manufacturers would not be subject to litigation for speeding.
When I first heard this claim, ...
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Do cars primarily built on a Monday or Friday have lower quality?
In his 1971 book Wheels, Arthur Hailey claims that cars that were primarily assembled on a Monday or Friday would suffer from quality problems due to worker performance/absenteeism issues associated ...
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