Mass production via assembly lines is widely considered to be the catalyst which initiated the modern consumer culture by making possible low unit cost for manufactured goods.

The development of toolpath control via jigs, fixtures, for machine tools ( such as the screw-cutting lathe, metal planer and milling machine ) during the early 19th century provided the prerequisites for the modern assembly line by making interchangeable parts a practical reality.

Thus, before the modern assembly line took shape, there were prototypical forms in various industries, as outlined below.

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.

The programming language to be employed by users was akin to modern day assembly languages.

In modern usage, the term " dictator " is generally used to describe a leader who holds and / or abuses an extraordinary amount of personal power, especially the power to make laws without effective restraint by a legislative assembly.

Ovation makes a modern variation, with a rounded back / side assembly molded from artificial materials.

The brass cartridge also opened the way for modern repeating arms, by uniting the bullet, gunpowder and primer into one assembly that could be fed reliably into the breech by a mechanical action in the firearm.

The history of modern France starts with the election of Hugh Capet ( 940-996 ) by an assembly summoned in Reims in 987.

In modern foundries these processes often occur in one assembly line, with ore coming in and finished steel coming out.

Iceland became Europe's first modern republic, with an annual assembly of elected officials called the Althing, though only goði ( wealthy landowners ) had the right to vote there.

In modern Hebrew a synagogue is called either a beyt knesset, meaning " house of assembly "; or beyt t ' fila ( also written as bet tepilla ), meaning " house of prayer ", in Yiddish shul, from the German for " school ," and in Ladino esnoga.

It is from him that the modern idea of a representative parliamentary assembly derives.

Whereas graphics programmers had earlier relied on hand-coded assembly to make their programs run fast, most modern programs are written to interface with one of the existing graphics APIs, which drives a dedicated GPU.

After being subjected to such indignities as being force-fed by a " modern " feeding machine and an accelerating assembly line where he screws nuts at an ever-increasing rate onto pieces of machinery, he suffers a nervous breakdown and runs amok, throwing the factory into chaos.

Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production.

Against these detractions, Renault's chairman, Georges Besse, continued to champion the French firm's future in the North American market ; pointing to the company's completion of the newest and most-advanced automotive assembly plant in North America, then known as Bramalea Assembly, as well as the recent introduction of the thoroughly modern, fuel-injected 4. 0 L and 2. 5 L engines.

A thing ( Old Norse, Old English and Icelandic: þing ; German, Dutch ding ; modern Scandinavian languages: ting ) was the governing assembly in Germanic societies and introduced into some Celtic societies, made up of the free people of the community and presided by lawspeakers, meeting in a place called a thingstead.

The Old Norse, Old Frisian and Old English þing with the meaning " assembly " is identical in origin to the English word thing, German Ding, Dutch ding, and modern Scandinavian ting when meaning " object ".

The evolution of the word thing from " assembly " to " object " is paralleled in the evolution of the Latin causa (" judicial lawsuit ") to modern French chose, Spanish / Italian / Catalan cosa and Portuguese coisa ( all meaning " object " or " thing ").

* 1913-Henry Ford develops the modern assembly line

To make this knowledge more accessible, Philippe Kruchten, a Rational techrep, was tasked with the assembly of an explicit process framework for modern software engineering.

The U. S. military is beginning to use a more modern tent called the deployable rapid assembly shelter or DRASH.

Under the chairmanship of the liberal politician Heinrich von Gagern, the assembly started on its ambitious plan to create a modern constitution as the foundation for a unified Germany.

Meanwhile, the Marquis of Cerralbo, built up a modern mass party, centered around the local assembly houses ( called " Círculos ", of which several hundred existed all around Spain in 1936 ) and their social action, and in an active participation in opposition to the political system of the Restoration ( participating even in wide coalitions like 1907's " Solidaritat Catalana ", with regionalists and republicans ).

At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.

In some of its facets anatomy is closely related to embryology, comparative anatomy and comparative embryology, in line with modern teaching methods.

The ' far-away light ' () is a reference to St Elmo's Fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient Greek mariners to be an epiphany of the Dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar — such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry ( see Scholars, fragments and sources below ).

Some Protestant charismatic and British New Church Movement churches include " apostles " among the offices that should be evident into modern times in a true church, though they never trace an historical line of succession.

Some sources include the requirement that the curve may not cross the line infinitely often, but this is unusual for modern authors.

" The term was introduced by Apollonius of Perga in his work on conic sections, but in contrast to its modern meaning, he used it to mean any line that does not intersect the given curve.

* Domestic: a fairly modern digital cable trunk line now connects switching centers in most of the regions ; the others are connected by digital microwave radio relay

Cuthbert's letter on Bede's death, the Epistola Cuthberti de obitu Bedae, moreover, commonly is understood to indicate that Bede also composed a five line vernacular poem known to modern scholars as Bede ’ s Death Song

Bishops ( as well as other members of the priesthood ) can trace their line of authority back to Joseph Smith, Jr., who, according to church doctrine, was ordained to lead the Church in modern times by the ancient apostles Peter, James, and John, who were ordained to lead the Church by Jesus Christ.

In a speech delivered at the nearby Masonic temple, Bush compared the RODS system to a modern " DEW " line ( referring to the Cold War ballistic missile early warning system ).

On modern keyboards, the key is usually labeled Pause with Break below, sometimes separated by a line, or Pause on the top of the keycap and Break on the front.

Although Cantor himself defined the set in a general, abstract way, the most common modern construction is the Cantor ternary set, built by removing the middle thirds of a line segment.

In 1893, was added to the back line, yielding the modern pitching distance of.

In the Welsh language who's origins, like Cornish is from the ancient British or Brythonic language line, ' Cist ' is also used for such ancient graves, but in modern use, can also mean a chest, a coffer, a box, or even the boot / trunk of a car.

His technique relies heavily on the satirical poem with a joke in the last line, thus drawing him closer to the modern idea of epigram as a genre.

While the divergence point of the mtDNA was unexpectedly deep in time, the full genomic sequence suggested the Denisovans belonged to the same lineage as Neanderthals, with the two diverging shortly after their line split from that giving rise to modern humans.

The problem is that in Old Norse mær means both " daughter " and " wife ," so it is not fully clear if Fjörgynn is Frigg's father or another name for her husband Odin, but Snorri Sturluson interprets the line as meaning Frigg is Fjörgynn's daughter ( Skáldskaparmál 27 ), and most modern translators of the Poetic Edda follow Snorri.

Following the original roots of modern graffiti as a political force came another game title, Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure ( 2006 ), featuring a story line involving fighting against a corrupt city and its oppression of free speech, as in the Jet Set Radio series.

In the 1980s there was a shortage of local line capacity on the existing crossbar exchange, which itself had replaced the relay and Strowger switch exchanges and a modern digital System / X switch was installed.

In 2006 there was one operational set of traffic lights but in July 2007, a modern system was installed by Indian firm CMS Traffic Systems Limited, through a US $ 2. 1 million line of credit to the government from India ’ s EXIM Bank, providing signals for both vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

The product line has changed from a GUI product to a modern operating system over two families of design, each with its own codebase and default file system.

In 1970 75 percent of Malaysians living below the poverty line were Malays, the majority of Malays were still rural workers, and Malays were still largely excluded from the modern economy.

The hendecasyllable is a line of eleven syllables, used in Ancient Greek and Latin quantitative verse as well as in medieval and modern European poetry.