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Is This Progress?

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.

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Is This Progress?

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  1. Is This Progress?

  2. 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

  3. 1876: Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper

  4. 1877: Thomas Edison invents the tin foil phonograph

  5. 1884: James Ritty invents the first working mechanical cash register

  6. 1885: Harim Maxim invents the machine gun

  7. 1886: Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher

  8. 1886: John Pemberton invents Coca Cola

  9. 1887: Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire

  10. 1891: Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator

  11. 1893: W.L. Judson invents the zipper

  12. 1895: The Lumiere brothers invent a portable motion picture camera

  13. 1898: Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster

  14. 1901: The first radio receiver successfully receives a transmission

  15. Progress? • ThorsteinVeblen • The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) • “predatory” traits • Achievements • “conspicuous consumption”

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