this graph is neat because if i didn’t know what any of these are, i would presume Refrigerator is the most powerful and important invention every adopted, reaching ubiquity (>80% adoption) over the period from 1929 to 1945, ending the depression and winning WWII
this graph is neat because if i didn’t know what any of these are, i would presume Refrigerator is the most powerful and important invention every adopted, reaching ubiquity (>80% adoption) over the period from 1929 to 1945, ending the depression and winning WWII
Now that you mention it, it’s pretty wild that it kept climbing throughout WW2, when cars and clothes washers dipped.
Possibly there’s some artefacts in the data though, I guess. But yeah, definitely a cool graph with a lot of stories to tell.