WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Textiles, railroads, iron and coal
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Psychoanalysis and new products
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Internet, web design and IPhones
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Steel, electricity, and oil
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Detailed explanation-1: -A synergy between iron and steel, railroads and coal developed at the beginning of the Second Industrial Revolution.
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: -The second Industrial Revolution is usually dated between 1870 and 1914, although a number of its char-acteristic events can be dated to the 1850s. It is, however, clear that the rapid rate of pathbreaking inventions (macroinventions) slowed down after 1825, and picked up steam again in the last third of the century.