Such sets are lightweight, compact and inexpensive, but like cards are more susceptible to minor disturbances such as a sudden breeze.

Today, inexpensive train sets running on batteries are again common but regarded as toys and seldom used by hobbyists.

These are inexpensive and suitable for small models that a child might construct from the standard range of sets.

Crystal sets represented an inexpensive and technologically simple method of receiving these signals at a time when the embryonic radio broadcasting industry was beginning to grow.

HO and N scale are the most popular model railway standards of today ; inexpensive sets sold in toy stores and catalogs are less realistic than those sold to hobbyists.

Unique sold its trains in inexpensive boxed sets like Marx, and also produced a circus set that was distributed on a car-by-car basis by the Tea Company Jewel Companies.

Unlike its competitors, Hafner survived the Great Depression without making significant changes to its product line, since it always specialized in inexpensive train sets that sold for US $ 3 or less.

Louis Marx and Company purchased the Hafner tooling, then shipped it to its subsidiary in Mexico, where it was used to produce inexpensive windup and battery-powered sets.

Bachmann primarily specializes in inexpensive high quality entry-level train sets sold in the mass market.

Low-budget producers usually made outdoor westerns and action pictures, saving money on sets and using inexpensive actors.

Some inexpensive sets are of disposable plastic film with a drop-in ring and screw-on plastic tips ( see image, above ).

African slavery had existed long before Europeans discovered it as an exploitable means of creating an inexpensive labour force for the colonies.

The book went through six editions, eventually growing to two volumes and ceasing to be the inexpensive, portable handbook that Lyell had originally envisioned.

The services of a midwife were not inexpensive ; this fact that suggests poorer women who could not afford the services of a professional midwife often had to make do with female relatives.

Eventually the industry had machines capable of quickly producing huge numbers of inexpensive nails with little or no human intervention.

Newlyn had a number of things guaranteed to attract artists: fantastic light, cheap living, and the availability of inexpensive models.

First, the radiocarbon dating method, invented in 1949, had, by the 1970s, become sufficiently inexpensive to be applied on a mass scale.

The IBM MCA standard had not been as popular as IBM expected and there was an ample surplus of the connector, making it inexpensive and readily available.

By the 1860s, butter had become so in demand in France that Emperor Napoleon III offered prize money for an inexpensive substitute to supplement France's inadequate butter supplies.

Any product line associated with the show had to be educational, inexpensive, and could not be advertised during the show's airings.

Throughout the entire PC industry, declines in prices along with commensurate increases in performance meant that Dell had fewer opportunities to upsell to their customers ( a lucruative strategy of encouraging buyers to upgrade processor or memory ), and as a result the company was selling a greater proportion of inexpensive PCs than before which eroded profit margins.

Some of the local saw mills already had electric power, and by providing power to the mills, Swortzel & Williams saw the opportunity to also provide inexpensive

While the process resulted in an extremely economical, quick and inexpensive product ( thus making it ideal for television ), it had a fatal flaw that prevented it from being taken seriously: the process involved inserting the moving lips of the voice actor over a still frame of a character's mouth.

Sailing ships had been inexpensive and could be built from local timber.

The last of the purpose-designed day fighters were the original F-16 and the YF-17 that competed for the Lightweight Fighter contract which had the goal of providing the USAF with an inexpensive day fighter that could be purchased in great numbers to establish air superiority.

But when producer Lawrence Bender called Avary during location scouting on Reservoir Dogs asking if he had a screenplay that took place entirely in a bank so that they could take advantage of an inexpensive location they had no use for, Avary told Bender that he had such a script — and quickly wrote Killing Zoe in under a week, using elements of his European trip as inspiration.

The Kaypro II's market success was due to a number of factors: it had a larger screen than the Osborne ; it was a relatively inexpensive, simple to set up closed architecture system at a time when first-time computer buyers made up almost the entirety of the market ; it came bundled with popular third-party application software ( PerfectWriter and PerfectCalc, later to be replaced by MicroPro's WordStar and CalcStar ); and it was supported by a network of trained dealers.

Frustrated with missing photo opportunities, H. M. Stiles had invented a way to enclose 35mm film in an inexpensive enclosure without the expensive precision film transport mechanism.

Sutter Home realized they could sell far more White Zinfandel than anything they had produced to date, and gradually became a successful producer of inexpensive wines.

The diagram shows the results of a systematic review and meta analysis on inexpensive course of corticosteroid given to women about to give birth too early – the evidence on effectiveness that would have been revealed had the available RCTs been reviewed systematically a decade later.

The PIAT had several advantages over other infantry anti-tank weapons of the period, which included a lack of muzzle smoke to reveal the position of the user, and an inexpensive barrel ; however, this was countered by, amongst other things, a difficulty in cocking the weapon, the bruising the user received when firing it, and problems with its penetrative power.

Rogallo had originally invented the wing with the idea to create an aircraft which would be simple enough and inexpensive enough that anyone could have one.

The producers demanded complete control over all products and product decisions ; any product line associated with the show had to be educational, inexpensive, and not advertised during its airings.

Malaguti USA was able to survive, but the increasing pressures from new inexpensive Chinese products in 2002, the sliding value of the US dollar in 2003, and the higher costs of production in Italy made it impossible to continue importing the product past 2005.

Instamatic 404, with selenium meter and spring windThe Instamatic was a series of inexpensive, easy-to-load 126 and 110 cameras made by Kodak beginning in 1963.

Phosphor bronze is by far the most common material for needle springs because it is relatively inexpensive, makes a good spring, and is resistant to corrosion.

These are generally inexpensive, excluding the high power bolt action sniper rifles and shotguns, and may not last long ( depending on the quality ) because of the tension created by a powerful spring.

Research and prototyping processes often use contact or proximity lithography, because it uses inexpensive hardware and can achieve high optical resolution.

Smaller, inexpensive laser printers typically print slowly, due to this energy-saving design, compared to large high speed printers where paper moves more rapidly through a high-temperature fuser with a very short contact time

Furthermore, since there are no moving parts in contact with the fluid, peristaltic pumps are inexpensive to manufacture.

It produced inexpensive pressed metal toys under the Wyandotte brand name, and was the nation's largest manufacturer of toy guns for several decades in the 20th century.

In 1948, die cast and plastic toys were added to the Wyandotte line, allowing it to compete with other companies who sold inexpensive dime store-type toys at lower prices than the Wyandotte pressed metal toys.

By the mid-19th century most inexpensive mass-produced glassware was pressed ( 1850 – 1910 ).