WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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the dynamo
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the steam engine
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the internal combustion engine
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the Bessemer process
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Detailed explanation-1: -Railroads Replace Steamships Though not depicted in Storm King, the railroad and steam-powered locomotive had arguably had the greatest impact on both transportation and western expansion.
Detailed explanation-2: -Rapid advances in the creation of steel, chemicals and electricity helped fuel production, including mass-produced consumer goods and weapons. It became far easier to get around on trains, automobiles and bicycles. At the same time, ideas and news spread via newspapers, the radio and telegraph.
Detailed explanation-3: -A major contributor to the Second Industrial Revolution was electrical power. Among Edison’s inventions were the typewriter and the telephone.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.