Industial Revolution
The three major improvements of the second Industrial Revolution were in the areas of energy and metal. It was based on oil, steel and electricity rather than coal and iron. The use of new materials made the second Industrial Revolution increase in size and technology, and mature more.ElectricityThe first dynamo, or electric generator, was developed in 1831. Its first applications were in communications. In 1837, two Englishmen had sent the first electric signals over a wire. In the 1870s, electricity was used to make the first electric motor, which would quickly replace the steam engine in industry. Electric motors were smaller, cleaner and cheaper than steam engines, and consequently they spread the Industrial Revolution throughout the manufacturing sector. The new motors could be used for many more things than steam - such as sewing machines and fans - and also light bulbs, which were invented in 1879 by Thomas Edison.Communications RevolutionAfter the first signal was sent over a wire, it was clear that electricity would produce a much better system of communication than ever before. The signals sent over a wire were developed into the telegraph, which the American Samuel Morse improved. Before long
In 1859, Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of the Species by the Means of Natural Selection". He had spent over twenty years studying the natural world, and concluded that natural selection caused gradual evolution and a change in species. It changed the way many people looked at the world and angered many religious leaders who insisted that he was wrong because of biblical lore. Both Germany and the United States industrialized quickly in the last half of the 1800s. Both had plentiful resources -particularly of iron - and were thus able to industrialize easily. The US, which made the industrial transition tp a greater extent that any other nation, had a winning combination - large amounts of coal and iron, along with a growing population. It would industrialize more than any other nation on earth.
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