Many industries, notably textiles, firearms, clocks and watches, buttons, horse-drawn vehicles, railroad cars and locomotives, sewing machines, and bicycles, saw expeditious improvement in materials handling, machining, and assembly during the 19th century, although modern concepts such as industrial engineering and logistics had not yet been named.

Many of these machines were experimental laboratory prototypes, such as the WISC CPU / 16

Many more machines offered user-programmable writable control stores as an option ( including the HP 2100, DEC PDP-11 / 60 and Varian Data Machines V-70 series minicomputers ).

Many weavers also found themselves suddenly unemployed since they could no longer compete with machines which only required relatively limited ( and unskilled ) labour to produce more cloth than a single weaver.

Many such unemployed workers, weavers and others, turned their animosity towards the machines that had taken their jobs and began destroying factories and machinery.

Many Filipino restaurants and bars local and abroad have karaoke machines which allow customers to sing.

Many mainframe customers run two machines: one in their primary data center, and one in their backup data center — fully active, partially active, or on standby — in case there is a catastrophe affecting the first building.

Many people use machines, from hand injectors to large machines in stores, to make cigarettes for themselves.

Many believe the term comes from early 1950s Las Vegas, when guests would often be given a " free roll " of nickels to play at the slot machines upon check-in.

Many early machines were of the Edison Class M or Class E type.

Many modern machines still have a legacy lever in addition to the button.

Many states have established gaming control boards to regulate the possession and use of slot machines.

Many older machines, however, remain in use.

Many early machines, including Turri's, were developed to enable the blind to write.

Many household appliances, such as microwave ovens, washing machines and dishwashers, include embedded systems to provide flexibility, efficiency and features.

Many lower end VCR's would leave the tape wound around the video head whilst rewinding or fast forwarding, so the rewinders were of some benefit on these machines, to save additional tape and head wear.

Many persons claim to have invented perpetual motion machines and other power generating devices supposedly based on zero-point energy.

Many large corporations also use these machines for signing business letters.

Many daisy wheel machines offer a bold type facility, accomplished by double-or triple-striking the specified character ( s ); servo-based printers advance the carriage fractionally for a wider ( and therefore blacker ) character, while cheaper machines perform a carriage return without a line feed to return to the beginning of the line, space through all non-bold text, and restrike each bolded character.

Many corporations demonstrated the use of mainframe computers, computer terminals with keyboards and CRT displays, Teletype machines, punch cards, and telephone modems in an era when computer equipment was kept in back offices away from the public, decades before the Internet and home computers were at everyone's disposal.

Many of these recordings were in mono, because in the mid 1980s most home video machines could only record mono sound, and also because the European BBC TV broadcast was in mono.

Many CP / M machines were designed to allow the full 16-bit address space of 64 kB to be populated by memory.

Many states have laws regulating the use of boat trailers and some have restrictions regarding the age of motor boat operators.

Many of them sincerely believe that the use of liquor in any form or in any degree is intrinsically evil and sinful.

Many people use wicker cradles for old red wine, lifting the bottle carefully from the bin into the cradle and eventually to the table, without disturbing the sediment.

Many languages use modified forms of the Latin alphabet, with additional letters formed using diacritical marks.

Many amateurs use online tools to plan their nightly observing sessions using tools such as the Clear Sky Chart.

Many contemporary Pueblo peoples object to the use of the term Anasazi, although there is still controversy among them on a native alternative.

Many British publications have gradually done away with the use of periods in abbreviations.

Many parents use a collection of simplified or ad hoc signs called " baby sign.

Many countries, including some US states, also permit the use of less severe corporal punishment for children in school.

Many such are localised, and do not form part of general Australian use, while others, such as kangaroo, boomerang, budgerigar, wallaby and so on have become international.

Many of Canberra's suburbs are named after former Prime Ministers, famous Australians, early settlers, or use Aboriginal words for their title.

Many ironclads were built to make use of the ram or the torpedo, which a number of naval designers considered the crucial weapons of naval combat.

Many were in common use, but had become unacceptable in normal discourse before the end of the twentieth century.

Many drugs produce an antidepressant effect, but restrictions on their use have caused controversy and off-label prescription is a risk, despite claims of superior efficacy.

Many dual system television receivers, equipped to receive both analog transmissions and digital transmissions have analog tuner ( television ) receiving capability and must use a television antenna.

Many areas average of rain per week, and these can use a cistern as small as.

Many autonomous homes can reduce water use below per person per day, so that in a drought a month of water can be delivered inexpensively via truck.

Many coal-burning power stations use flue-gas desulfurization ( FGD ) to remove sulfur-containing gases from their stack gases.

Many types of applications use variables representable in eight or fewer bits, and processor designers optimize for this common usage.

Many players, however, prefer to use replacement grips as the final layer.

Many players use a backhand hitting action for returning smashes on both the forehand and backhand sides, because backhands are more effective than forehands at covering smashes directed to the body.

Many of those that have been properly examined show that they continued in use for many centuries, although the interiors were often modified and changed, and they underwent many phases of habitation and abandonment.

Many Internet sites use information and images from the CIA World Factbook.

Many later CPU designs use similar mixed bit width, especially when the processor is meant for general-purpose usage where a reasonable balance of integer and floating point capability is required.

Many printer drivers do not use the text mode at all, even if the printer is capable of it.