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Is This Progress?
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Is This Progress?
1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
1876: Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper
1877: Thomas Edison invents the tin foil phonograph
1884: James Ritty invents the first working mechanical cash register
1885: Harim Maxim invents the machine gun
1886: Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher
1886: John Pemberton invents Coca Cola
1887: Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire
1891: Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator
1893: W.L. Judson invents the zipper
1895: The Lumiere brothers invent a portable motion picture camera
1898: Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster
1901: The first radio receiver successfully receives a transmission
Progress?
• Thorstein Veblen– The Theory of the Leisure
Class (1899)• “predatory” traits• Achievements• “conspicuous
consumption”