Questions tagged [manufacturing]
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Was adding milk to tea started to reduce employee tea break time?
I was talking about the all important Tea Making Process to a fellow Brit the other day, and he told me that the real reason we add milk to tea is: “It cools the tea down, so you can drink it faster. It was a trick used by factory owners back in the…
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Does the cardboard box cost more than the corn in cornflakes?
In today's edition of CNN Student News (transcript), devoted to the topic "breakfast cereal", the following claim was made:
Let`s start with the cereal itself. At its core, cereal is actually the grain, like corn, oats or wheat. These energy dense…
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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 production
process.
Is this accurate or just an…
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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, I thought it was simply an excuse to justify…
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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 Hamburg summit, arguing "[w]e do this steel that's…
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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
550 people are losing their jobs.
700 other positions…
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Do Americans use 500 million straws per day?
CNN claims that Americans use 500 million straws per day.
Every day, Americans throw away 500 million plastic straws, enough to
circle the Earth twice, or fill 125 school buses.
Other sources claim this too (ex1, ex2, ex3). Most seem to have a…
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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 with those days. Now, I realize that this was a…
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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 charged polypropelene film in a factory. This "invisible…
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Does Turkey make the "structural steel frame" for the F-35 fighter?
In a tweet of Donald Trump (which was also carried without commentary in this regard by the Washington Post) he says
So many people conveniently forget that Turkey is a big trading partner of the United States, in fact they make the structural…
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Does Nike produce left and right shoes in different countries?
In a story, widely circulated on the Russian internet, Nike (or Adidas, or any other major footwear manufacturer) faced a problem of pilfering on their new factories somewhere in the Third World.
When standard methods (increased security etc.)…
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Is this claim about 3-D printed rhino horns accurate?
The following image is circulating on Facebook:
A biotech startup has managed to 3-D print fake rhino horns that carry the same genetic fingerprint as the actual horn. The company plans to flood Chinese rhino horn market at one-eighth of the price…
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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 damage, the environmental damage and the health…
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Did Henry Ford ever say "any color he wants as long as it’s black"?
It's a common quote to attribute to him. Did he ever actually say/write it?
A customer can have a car painted any color he wants as long as it’s black.
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Does the AstraZeneca vaccine not come in contact with any animal product during production?
In refuting an Indonesian Islamic council finding to the contrary,
AstraZeneca Indonesia director Rizman Abudaeri said in a statement: “At all stages of the production process, this virus vector vaccine does not use nor come in contact with…
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