Mass production

Photograph of the Assembly Line at Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation in New York | DocsTeach: Documents

Nike factory in Vietnam

Designer Bart Hess used ideas of mass production, bespoke design and human input to sustain creative industries in an installation for Milan design week.

Volkswagen is halting production of the last version of its Beetle model this week at its plant in Puebla, Mexico. It’s the end of the road for a vehicle that has symbolized many things over a history spanning the eight decades since 1938.

The printing press is one of the most wonderful inventions that ever graced this earth. It helped to bring us all these wonderful books we can't get enough of. Here's what you need to know about this incredible invention that changed the world for the better.

Scientific Management (Taylorism) is a theory of management principles by Frederik Taylor that analyzes the human labours at a workplace.

Andreas Gursky (1955) is a German photographer known for his enormous architecture and landscape color photographs, often employing a high point of view. Though every window opens up to different apartments, different people, this picture indicates in its repetiton that there is a great similarity in the way human beings shape their lives.

The human-made technosphere weighs 30 trillion tons and surpasses the natural biosphere in mass and diversity, researchers estimate.

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"Smoke pouring into the air from a Pittsburgh steel mill, 1906. Each month the steam boilers and furnaces of its industries, railroads, and homes dumped 100 tons of pollutants on its streets." Steel was the main component in the Model-T. One of the largest industries for steel was the automotive industry. Once a middle class friendly automobile was made, more and more vehicles were being designed using more resources and polluting the air further.