Second+Industrial+Revolution

Chermaine Amaya

Describe the impact of the new technologies that emerged during the Second Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century.

"Age of Steel" Electricity Combustion Engine Communication Entertainment
 * Henry Bessemer
 * "Bessemer process" is a way of producing steel from pig iron by using pressurized air to reduce carbon content
 * steel cheaper to produce
 * lightbulb (1879)
 * Thomas Edison
 * homes and cities illuminated by electric light
 * Joseph Swan
 * made urban life safer
 * electric trolleys move people quickly and efficiently
 * electric elevators
 * bulid skyscrapers
 * electric appliances
 * refrigerators, sewing machines, and etc.
 * Karl Benz
 * automobile
 * telephone(1876)
 * Alexander Graham Bell
 * radio(1901)
 * Guglielmo Marconi
 * Gramophone(1876)
 * Thomas Edison
 * first motion pictures(1895)

Thesis:Life during the Second Industrial Revolution became more suffient as new technologies using steel, combustion engines, and electricity, grew out.

Bibliography: APEC Textbook The Princeton Review (2011) AP European History Exam []

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