Currently, the world genebanks hold about 40, 000 bean varieties, although only a fraction are mass-produced for regular consumption.

However, this method of designing custom CPUs for a particular application has largely given way to the development of mass-produced processors that are made for many purposes.

Cajun folkways include many ways of preserving meat, some of which are waning due to the availability of refrigeration and mass-produced meat at the grocer.

Cheaper mass-produced kites are often made from printed polyester rather than silk.

Most kaleidoscopes are mass-produced from inexpensive materials, and intended as children's toys.

As a result, lutes are generally more expensive than mass-produced modern instruments such as the guitar, though not nearly as expensive as the violin.

Handmade skins are usually better prepared for artists and have fewer oily spots which can cause long-term cracking of paint than mass-produced parchment.

On the other hand, in the case of mass-produced goods, customized control systems are economical.

Rockets in applications other than launch to orbit ( such as military rockets and rocket-assisted take off ), commonly not needing comparable performance and sometimes mass-produced, are often relatively inexpensive.

They are often mass-produced under large production banners, with companies like Balaji Telefilms running different language versions of the same serial on different television networks or channels.

There are several chains with mass-produced items of Southern cuisine on their menus, such as Cracker Barrel, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Bojangles ' Famous Chicken ' n Biscuits, Church's Chicken, Mrs. Winner's, Sonny's, Tudor's Biscuit World and Popeye's.

Copyrighted tattoo designs that are mass-produced and sent to tattoo artists are known as flash, a notable instance of industrial design.

Higher quality, mass-produced woks are made of heavy gauge ( 14-gauge or thicker ) steel, and are either machine-hammered or made of spun steel.

These garments are less expensive, mass-produced Western clothing.

The first commercial application in mass-produced consumer products appeared in 1982 with the compact disc, where two interleaved RS codes are used.

Some embedded systems are mass-produced, benefiting from economies of scale.

The latter are almost always mass-produced weapons, developed and constructed to a standard design out of standard components and intended to be deployed in a standard explosive device.

Turbines have historically been more expensive to produce than piston engines, though this is partly because piston engines have been mass-produced in huge quantities for decades, while small gas turbine engines are rarities ; however, turbines are mass-produced in the closely related form of the turbocharger.

Cheap mass-produced accordion-reeded instruments are less reliable.

They are mainly made using traditional building techniques, and some are built customized to order, but the traditional design is adapted to use mass-produced accordion reeds to significantly reduce production cost and time.

In 1960, the FDA banned the use of sassafras oil and safrole in commercially mass-produced foods and drugs based on the animal studies and human case reports.

An entirely hand-built seven-seater sedan based on the Fiat Tipo 3, it proved expensive compared to its American and European mass-produced rivals, and was discontinued in 1921 after only 22 had been built.

In races, the engine must be strong enough to withstand the additional stress placed upon it, and so is often far stronger than any mass-produced design on which it may be based, and also that the automobile must carry sufficient fuel.

Mach's artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced objects.

In this case, both feet are measured, and purchasers of mass-produced shoes are advised to purchase a shoe size based upon the larger foot.

However, MIP lost the competition, mainly due to their competing prototype, MIP-X1, even though it had superior performance when compared to the inferior AMBAC prototype Zeonic design, it had less than 10 minutes combat time because of its performance being based on consuming great amount of propellant and could hardly fight on its own without heavy support from its mothership for resupplies, MAs were never mass-produced.

The PF-9, a flat 9 mm single column magazine semi-automatic pistol based on the earlier P-11 and P-3AT designs, was upon its release touted as the thinnest and lightest 9 mm pistol ever mass-produced.

Katyushas of World War II, the first self-propelled artillery mass-produced by the Soviet Union, were usually mounted on trucks.

High-volume lithography is used presently to produce posters, maps, books, newspapers, and packaging — just about any smooth, mass-produced item with print and graphics on it.

Gottfried Leibniz ( 1646 – 1716 ), building on Pascal's work, became one of the most prolific inventors in the field of mechanical calculators ; he was the first to describe a pinwheel calculator in 1685 and invented the Leibniz wheel, used in the arithmometer, the first mass-produced mechanical calculator.

* The Henney Kilowatt goes on sale in the United States, becoming the first mass-produced electric car in almost three decades.

Even as Chicago Municipal Pier was being built, mass-produced cars and trucks were beginning to wreak havoc on the package freight and passenger steamboat industries of Lake Michigan.

The stone adzes were mass-produced on Penghu and nearby islands, from the volcanic rock found there.

Thermionic valve equipment usually does not have the valves mounted on the PCB, to avoid heat damage, but uses PCBs for the wiring, achieving the economy of mass-produced PCBs without the heat damage.

In the United States, the reputation of mezcal suffered from its association with college binges on cheap mass-produced bottles sold with the agave larvae at the bottom.

Founded in 1104 in Venice, Republic of Venice, several hundred years before the Industrial Revolution, it mass-produced ships on assembly lines using manufactured parts.

The all-new MGF went on sale in 1995, becoming the first mass-produced " real " MG sports car since the MGB ceased production in 1980.

Others argue that mass-produced weapons of the time were coated in brown varnish on metal parts as a rust preventative and on wood as a sealer ( or in the case of unscrupulous contractors, to disguise inferior or non-regulation types of wood ).

The factory's machines mass-produced its parts that were completely interchangeable and could be put together on assembly lines using standardized patterns and gauges by unskilled labor as opposed to England's top gun makers making each part by hand.

( Slotted screws are rarely used in mass-produced devices, since the driver is not inherently centered on the fastener.

The war ended shortly after the tests, and the hemi V16 was never mass-produced, although the basic design and valvetrain setup live on in today's Hemi V8s.

Especially after the development of modern mass-produced literature, there have been genres that relied on history or then-current events for material.

These wines do not usually show the word " Beaujolais " on the label, in an attempt to separate themselves from mass-produced Nouveau ; in fact vineyards in the cru villages are not allowed to produce Nouveau.

Relatively cheap, mass-produced ~ 2 meter telescopes have recently been developed and have made a significant impact on astronomy research.

The guitars, bass guitars, and amplifiers he designed from the 1940s on are still relevant: the Fender Telecaster ( 1950 ) was the first mass-produced electric guitar ; the Fender Stratocaster ( 1954 ) is among the world's most iconic electric guitars ; the Fender Precision Bass ( 1951 ) set the standard for electric bass guitars ; and the Fender Bassman amplifier, popular enough in its own right, became the basis for later amplifiers ( notably by Marshall and Mesa Boogie ) that dominated rock and roll music.

The Prius first went on sale in Japan in 1997, and was available at all four Toyota Japan dealerships, making it the first mass-produced hybrid vehicle.