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Effects of the Second Industrial Revolution

a. My topic will focus on the effects of the Second Industrial Revolution. I will focus

mainly on the technological advancements made during this period. My topic will focus

on the period between 1870 and 1914. I will examine how these technological

advancements transformed society’s social and economic status.

b. Mohajan, Haradhan. "The second industrial revolution has brought modern social and

economic developments." (2019): 1-14.

“In the 19th century, the USA was a society without social security. Medicare, antibiotics,

health insurance, Radio, Television, computers, airplanes, and automobiles had been

invented during 1R2”(Mohajan 5).

c. Agarwal, Harshit, and Rashi Agarwal. "First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial

Revolution: Technological differences and the differences in banking and financing of

the firms." Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2.11 (2017): 1062-1066.

“The period of the second industrial revolution also saw some other technological

developments in the petroleum industry, maritime industry, rubber industry, automobile

industry, telecommunication industry, and fertilizer industry” (Agarwal and Rashi 1064).

d. Mokyr, Joel, and Robert H. Strotz. "The Second Industrial Revolution, 1870-

1914." Storia dell’economia Mondiale 21945.1 (1998):1-16.

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“The use of electricity expanded quickly in the 1870s. A miniature electric railway was

displayed at the Berlin exhibition in 1879; electric blankets and hotplates appeared at the

industrial exhibition of Vienna in 1883; and electric streetcars were running in Frankfurt

and Glasgow by 1884” (Mokyr et al. 6).

e. Hull, James P. "The Second Industrial Revolution and the staples frontier in Canada:

rethinking knowledge and history." Scientia Canadensis 18.1 (1994): 22-37.

“The Second Industrial Revolution and its new structure of knowledge gave firms in an

industry good reasons to behave as a unit on technical matters, not as a group of

competitive firms. This related to technical knowledge in a number of ways” (Hull 29).

Works Cited

Agarwal, Harshit, and Rashi Agarwal. "First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial

Revolution: Technological differences and the differences in banking and financing of

the firms." Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2.11 (2017): 1062-1066.

Hull, James P. "The Second Industrial Revolution and the staples frontier in Canada: rethinking

knowledge and history." Scientia Canadensis 18.1 (1994): 22-37.

Mohajan, Haradhan. "The second industrial revolution has brought modern social and economic

developments." (2019): 1-14.

Mokyr, Joel, and Robert H. Strotz. "The Second Industrial Revolution, 1870-1914." Storia

dell’economia Mondiale 21945.1 (1998):1-16.