Is This Progress?

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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Is This Progress?

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1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

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1876: Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper

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1877: Thomas Edison invents the tin foil phonograph

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1884: James Ritty invents the first working mechanical cash register

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1885: Harim Maxim invents the machine gun

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1886: Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher

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1886: John Pemberton invents Coca Cola

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1887: Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire

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1891: Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator

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1893: W.L. Judson invents the zipper

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1895: The Lumiere brothers invent a portable motion picture camera

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1898: Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster

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1901: The first radio receiver successfully receives a transmission

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Progress?

• Thorstein Veblen– The Theory of the Leisure

Class (1899)• “predatory” traits• Achievements• “conspicuous

consumption”