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Second Industrial Revolution:
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Science Triumphs: “Second” IR SIGNIFICANCE: 1) Impact of ideas and products wide spread 2) Optimism in human progress 3) Science = only way to truth New Products Steel Chemicals Electricity Petroleum
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Steel = lighter, smaller, faster machines, engines, ships, railways, and weapons Chemicals France & Germany in lead artificial dyes revolutionize soap, textile, paper industries Photographic plates and film Chemical fertilizers
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Electricity Thermodynamics Sig: impacts heat, light, motion & communication Michael Faraday – electromagnetism (electric engine) Thomas Edison (AM) & Joseph Swan (GB) - electric lighting Alexander Graham Bell (AM) – telephone, 1876 Guglielmo Marconi – radio waves across Atlantic, 1901 Electric Streetcar – Berlin, 1879 Factories – conveyor belts, cranes, machines
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Petroleum Internal combustion engine, 1878 (gas & air) Gottlieb Daimler, 1886 – light engine Automobile – 1900=9000 cars; 1916=750,000 Henry Ford (AM) & mass production 1900 Zeppelin airship 1903 Wright Brothers WWI = boom in aircraft industry 1919 = 1 st commercial aircraft
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Economic Zones by 1900 Industrialized Zone = GB, Belgium, Germany, France, Netherlands, Austro-Hungarian Empire (West), Italy (North) High standard of living, education, healthier, system of transportation Agricultural Zone = Italy (south), Austro- Hungarian Empire (East), Spain, Portugal, Balkan kingdoms, Russia Providers of raw materials and food Decline in price of food makes farming difficult – large farms develop By 1870 Russia and Japan begin industrialization World economy = interdependency of goods & products
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