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Product & Market Info Packaged Spices (FOOD II (staple) — $36.40
In India, whole spices are packed in jute bags. These bags prevent spillage and also prevent insects from entering and contaminating spices. As the period of storage increases, the requirement of the packaging changes, and an additional requirement of restricting moisture is also added. In these circumstances, it is advisable not to use normal jute bags. However, a little improvisation in terms of polyethylene (PE) lined jute bags would be a better option and would increase the shelf life...

Product & Market Data for Chassis — $7,700.00
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Product & Market Info Fresh Produce (FOOD I (processed) — $11.20
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Product & Market Info Tissues (WOOD & PAPER — $42.00
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Product & Market Info Lingerie (TEXTILE — $61.60
In the Middle Ages it was felt that the silhouette should be restrained, especially the breasts, which they thought should be firm and small. In those days, women wore many styles of corsets over their dresses, all with the similar purpose of flattening their breasts. An iron hinged armour like corset was worn to flatten the body giving a smooth outline beneath gowns. The iron corset must have been exceptionally uncomfortable and heavy to wear and could only have been worn by Elizabethan ladies...

Product & Market Info Cotton Fabric (TEXTILE — $3,192.00
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Toothpaste (COSMETICS & HYGIENE Industry) — $22.40
There was little development until the 18th century when doctors, dentists and chemists starting creating new formulae including brick dust, crushed china, cuttlefish and even sugar. By the end of the 18th century Borax was being added to create a foam. The poor could not afford these compounds and used their fingers and rubbed with bicarbonate of soda.

Leather (TEXTILE Industry) — $4,620.00
The cured skins are soaked in pure water to eliminate salt, blood, and dirt, and also to replace moisture lost in the curing process. After the skins have soaked for a period varying from two hours to seven days, the flesh is removed mechanically from the inner surface. To loosen the hair, the skins are then immersed for one to nine days in a solution of lime and water containing a small amount of sodium sulphide. Following this operation the hair is easily removed by a dehairing machine,...

Cotton (TEXTILE Industry) — $1,358.00
Cultivators and herbicides are used to control weed growth. Rows of plants used to be 30 - 40 inches apart but in recent years new harvesting techniques have allowed this to reduce to 15 inches apart. The underside of each leaf contains a small cup-like structure holding nectar. This makes the plant attractive to a variety of insect pests chiefly the boll weevil, a pink larva of a small moth, which burrows into the boll and can destroy the crop. The use of early maturing plans strains together...

Binoculars (RECREATION Industry) — $84.00
1608 When Jan Lippershey, an eyeglass maker living in Holland applied for a patent for his telescope he was asked to produce an instrument that could be used with two eyes, but there is doubt as to if such an instrument was successfully completed. Over the next hundred years many inventors devised methods of joining two telescopes together but none can be considered as the prototype of today's binoculars.

Product & Market Info Vitamin Pills (MEDICINAL — $217.00
That hard line softened in the late 1980s and early �90s, when studies revealed that diets based on vitamin-rich plant foods could lower the risk of cardiovascular disease and some cancers. No one knew whether those benefits came from the vitamins themselves or from other substances found in food, so researchers began studying the long-term effects of various supplements. Studies have yielded mixed results, suggesting that different vitamins can have different effects (good, bad or negligible...

Pickup Trucks (AUTOMOTIVE Industry) — $40,600.00
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Product & Market Info Leather Boots (TEXTILE — $3,500.00
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Glass (CHEMICALS & ENERGY Industry) — $756.00
In 1688, in France, a new process was developed for the production of plate glass, principally for use in mirrors, whose optical qualities had, until then, left much to be desired. The molten glass was poured onto a special table and rolled out flat. After cooling, the plate glass was ground on large round tables by means of rotating cast iron discs and increasingly fine abrasive sands, and then polished using felt disks. The result of this "plate pouring" process was flat glass with good ...

Vegetables (AGRICULTURE Industry) — $1,618.40
The scientific argument is very strong that fruits and vegetables are protective for all the gastrointestinal cancers and all the smoking-related cancers. A plant-based diet with lots of fruits and vegetables can reduce the risk of heart disease. There's a lot of evidence that fruits and vegetables are beneficial for reducing the risk of stroke. No one is sure if it's the potassium, magnesium, fibre, or other components of fruits and vegetables that protect arteries in the brain. It's no secret...

Batteries (ELECTRONICS Industry) — $11.20
250 BC The Baghdad Battery - In 1936 several unusual earthenware jars, dating from about 250 B.C., were unearthed during archaeological excavations at Khujut Rabu near Baghdad. A typical jar was 130 mm (5-1/2 inches) high and contained a copper cylinder, the bottom of which was capped by a copper disk and sealed with bitumen or asphalt. An iron rod was suspended from an asphalt stopper at the top of the copper cylinder into the centre of the cylinder. The rod showed evidence of having been...

Electrical Cable (APPLIANCES Industry) — $3,962.00
Electrical cables (or wires) are used, as the name suggests, in all things electrical. They are used in a never ending list of things, from the car radio, to the space shuttle. Electrical cable is made from copper, which is the second most conductive element after silver, and then coated with a plastic jacket, which is an insulator, this is done in order to prevent electrocution or short-circuits. Copper was the first metal to be used by humans, first off it was...

Telescopes (RECREATION Industry) — $1,120.00
For the next 250 years the technology remained unchanged but the power increased as larger and larger mirrors were used. The 6 inch diameter mirror used by Newton had by 1974 become a 6 meter monster (over 19 feet wide) installed in the Special Astrophysical Observatory in Russia. As telescopes grew in size scientific effort concentrated on lenses, not to magnify but to correct distortions. Eventually bigger telescopes made no difference because the Earth's atmosphere was getting in the way.

Light Bulbs (AUTOMOTIVE Industry) — $7.00
wide, low-cost availability. easy incorporation into electrical systems. adaptable for small systems. low voltage operation, such as in battery powered devices. wide shape and size availability.

Product & Market Info Sweatshirts (TEXTILE — $19.60
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PDAs (ELECTRONICS Industry) — $490.00
In 1978 Toshiba was the first company to sell an actual integrated organizer, the LC-836MN, commonly known as the Memo Note 30. Klausner, a music major who graduated from New York University in 1973, inspected a friend's pocket calculator one day in 1976. "I was looking at these little calculators that were very small and had these memory buttons on them, and I didn't know what that meant," he said. The friend explained the mathematical purpose - "I thought, that's dumb, if these things are...

Bubble Bath (COSMETICS & HYGIENE Industry) — $25,217,272.02
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Product & Market Info DVD-Players (ELECTRONICS — $420.00
DVD picture quality is better, and many of DVDs have Dolby Digital or DTS sound, which is much closer to the sound you experience in a cinema. Many DVD movies have an on-screen index, where the creator of the DVD has labelled many of the significant parts of the movie, sometimes with a picture. With your remote, if you select the part of the movie you want to view, the DVD player will take you right to that part, with no need to rewind or fast-forward. DVD players are compatible with audio CDs...

Buses (MACHINERY Industry) — $161,000.00
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Motorcycles (AUTOMOTIVE Industry) — $8,750.00
Travelling by motorbike can reduce journey times by up to two thirds. Up to eight motorbikes can fit in the same parking space occupied by one car. Motorcycling is as popular now as it was 20 years ago, but rider casualties for every mile travelled are 30% lower compared to the early 1980's. Research proves that other road users are primarily at fault for around 60% of all bike crashes. A bike is stolen every 18 minutes, 75% are stolen from their owner's house.

Product & Market Info Hogs (FOOD II (staple) — $1,988.00
Much is written and many organisations have campaigned against the intensive farming methods that have become common place in the last 50 years. Campaigners focus on such issues as the world of concrete floors and farrowing crates in which the sows live part of their lives, the diseases and mortality brought on by stress, and the unnaturally short lives of the animals be they breeding stock or for market. In many countries legislation and pressure from these groups is bring about improvements...

Airships (AEROSPACE Industry) — $1,400,000.00
Initially airships met with great success and compiled an impressive safety record. The Graf Zeppelin, for example, flew over 1 million miles (including the first circumnavigation of the globe by air) without a single passenger injury. The expansion of airship fleets and the growing (sometimes excessive) self-confidence of airship pilots gradually made the limits of the type clear, however, and initial successes gave way to a series of tragic rigid airship ...