WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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You’d perform the same task over and over.
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You’d work deep underground, mining coal.
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You’d spend your day building different parts of automobiles.
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You’d spend your day in the fields, picking cotton.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Among the most important inventions of the first Industrial Revolution include the steam engine, the spinning jenny, cotton gin, and the telegraph. This was followed by the second Industrial Revolution, which saw the advent of the internal combustion engine, controlled electricity, and the lightbulb.
Detailed explanation-2: -Major Technological Advances of the Second Industrial Revolution. 1870s. Automatic signals, air brakes, and knuckle couplers on the railroads; the Bessemer and then the open-hearth process in the steel mills; the telephone, electric light, and typewriter.
Detailed explanation-3: -How was the first Industrial Revolution different from the second? The first led to the development of new inventions; the second did not. The first was centered in Britain; the second was centered in America. The first involved advances in transportation and communication; the second did not.