Charles Seeberger invented the modern escalator

1919 Along with Westinghouse and other companies, General Electric forms the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).

• 1919 Along with Westinghouse and other companies, General Electric forms the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).
• 1920 Eddie Bauer's Tennis Shop opens; name soon changes to Eddie Bauer's Sports Shop.
• 1922 Henry Luce forms Time, Inc.
• 1923With his brother Roy, Walt Disney forms Disney Brothers Studio, which later becomes the Walt Disney Company.
• Mass concentration of wealth through acquisitions, such as one with J.P. Morgan to form the United States Steel Company in 1901, and the unbridled power of investment banking firms, led labor unrest to the doorstep of a population of one percent owning more national wealth than the other 99 percent.
• 1929 American Stock Market Crash
• 1934 FDR signs bill for FHA Federal Housing Administration
• 1938 Earl Tupper forms the Earl S. Tupper Company. (Tupperware)
• 1939 First commercial television broadcast
• 1942 All Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors plants convert to military production.

1948 Richard and Maurice McDonald open their first fast-food restaurant in San Bernadino, California.

• 1948 Richard and Maurice McDonald open their first fast-food restaurant in San Bernadino, California.

• 1957 First Japanese car sold in the US, the Toyota

• 1958 Bank of America launches the first credit card

• 1959 Berry Gordy launches the Tamla and Motown record labels after borrowing $800 from his family.

• 1962 The first Walmart and K-mart stores open and Coca Cola introduces Tab cola.

• 1965 President Johnson signs Medicare into law.

• 1968 NIKE shoe company launched

• 1969 Gap stores opened by Donald and Doris Fisher

• 1969 J.L. Hudson and Dayton Company Merger to form Dayton Hudson. Dayton Hudson Corporation operates the well-known Target discount stores, Mervyn's moderately priced retail stores, and the Dayton's, Hudson's, and Marshall Field department stores in the Midwest.

• 1971 First Starbucks opens

• 1971 Southwest Airlines begins first flights

• 1973 Federal Express begins operations from Memphis, TN.

• 1974 Wally “Famous”Amos begins production of cookies.

1975 Microsoft formed

• 1975 Microsoft formed

• 1976 Apple Computer begins software development of personal computers

• 1978 Ben and Jerry’s open first ice cream shop in Vermont.

• 1985 Formation of HARPO productions, self named and owned by Oprah Winfrey and the Oprah Winfrey Show, formally A.M. Chicago

• 1985 Michael Jordan signs with NIKE

• 1989 Time Inc, and Warner Communications merge to form Time Warner

• 1994 Dream Works SKG entertainment formed

• 1995 Jeff Bezos opens Amazon.com, the online bookstore

• 1996 Time Warner purchases Ted Turner’s Turner Broadcasting parent company of Cable News Network

• 1997 Martha Stewart buys her magazine Martha Stewart Living from Time Wamer and launches Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.

• 1998 Chrysler merges with Daimler-Benz to form Chrysler Daimler AG

• 2000 Dayton Hudson becomes “Target” department stores

• 2001 America Online buys Time Warner forming AOL Time Warner

The association between a stimulus and a response will strengthen or weakened depending on whether a satisfier or an annoyer follows the response. Actions that lead immediately to pleasure are remembered and repeated, eventually fossilizing into habits, whereas actions leading to pain are suppressed or avoided.

• The association between a stimulus and a response will strengthen or weakened depending on whether a satisfier or an annoyer follows the response. Actions that lead immediately to pleasure are remembered and repeated, eventually fossilizing into habits, whereas actions leading to pain are suppressed or avoided.

Wilhelm Wundts Gestalt psychology is a school of thought that looks at the human mind and behavior as a whole.

• Wilhelm Wundts Gestalt psychology is a school of thought that looks at the human mind and behavior as a whole.

GENETIC EPISTEMOLOGY attempts to explain knowledge, and in particular scientific knowledge, on the basis of its history, its socio-genesis, and especially the psychological origins of the notions and operations upon which it is based. These notions and operations are drawn in large part from common sense, so that their origins can shed light on their significance as knowledge of a somewhat higher level. But genetic epistemology also takes into account, wherever possible, formalization - in particular, logical formalizations applied to equilibrated thought structures and in certain cases to transformations from one level to another in the development of thought.

• GENETIC EPISTEMOLOGY attempts to explain knowledge, and in particular scientific knowledge, on the basis of its history, its socio-genesis, and especially the psychological origins of the notions and operations upon which it is based. These notions and operations are drawn in large part from common sense, so that their origins can shed light on their significance as knowledge of a somewhat higher level. But genetic epistemology also takes into account, wherever possible, formalization - in particular, logical formalizations applied to equilibrated thought structures and in certain cases to transformations from one level to another in the development of thought.