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These fans were certainly a luxury item for the time. The average price listed there was about $30. Adjusting for inflation, that's the equivalent of about $750
by oldlinux 6y ago
These fans were certainly a luxury item for the time. The average price listed there was about $30. Adjusting for inflation, that's the equivalent of about $750 today (https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=inflation+since+1911+for+%2430+USD https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=inflation+since+1911+f...).
Put another way, it was a few weeks worth of the average salary for a railway or steel worker of the era (https://ahundredyearsago.com/2012/09/17/average-salaries-1912-and-2012/ https://ahundredyearsago.com/2012/09/17/average-salaries-191...).
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoEven Dyson's overpriced fans aren't THAT expensive nowadays. That said, I do think there is a market for quality products in a 10-20x price range, products built to last instead of built to be cheap and good enough for a couple years.