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The Second Industrial Revolution was a period when advances in steel production, electricity and petroleum caused a series of innovations that changed society. With the production of cost effective steel, railroads were expanded and more industrial machines were built. Women become a bigger part of the work industry, getting jobs as white collar workers including secretaries and clerks.

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  • Skglb promo 1895

    A German railway in 1895.

  • Morsetaste

    A telegraph key used to transmit text messages in Morse code.

  • Symonds and Co Collection Q22343

    The ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, a steamboat. As the main means of trans-oceanic travel for more than a century, ocean liners were essential to the transport needs of national governments, commercial enterprises and the general public.

  • ConverterB

    A diagram of the Bessemer converter. Air blown through holes in the converter bottom creates a violent reaction in the molten pig iron that oxidizes the excess carbon, converting the pig iron to pure iron or steel, depending on the residual carbon.

  • Barrow Steelworks

    The Barrow Hematite Steel Company operated 18 Bessemer converters and owned the largest steelworks in the world at the turn of the 20th century.

  • The rail rolling mill, Hughesovka

    A rail rolling mill in Donetsk, 1887.

  • Light bulb Edison 2

    U.S. Patent#223898: Electric-Lamp. Issued 27 January 1880.

  • 3phase-rmf-noadd-60f-airopt

    Three-phase rotating magnetic field of an AC motor. The three poles are each connected to a separate wire. Each wire carries current 120 degrees apart in phase. Arrows show the resulting magnetic force vectors. Three phase current is used in commerce and industry.

  • JFIScrewThread300

    A graphic representation of formulas for the pitches of threads of screw bolts.

  • BASF Werk Ludwigshafen 1881

    The BASF-chemical factories in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1881

  • HMS Devastation (1871)

    HMS Devastation, built in 1871, as it appeared in 1896

  • RMS Olympic's propellers

    Propellers of the RMS Olympic, 1911

  • 1885Benz

    Benz Patent-Motorwagen, first production automobile, first built in 1885

  • 1910Ford-T

    1910 Ford Model T

  • 1891 Telegraph Lines

    Major telegraph lines in 1891.

  • Ford assembly line - 1913

    Workers on the first moving assembly line put together magnetos and flywheels for 1913 Ford autos in Michigan.

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Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Segunda Revolución Industrial para niños

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