The Second Industrial Rebolution and Imperialism

U.S Annexes Midway Island

1867

Transcontinental Railroad

1869

It consisted of two railroad companies: Central Pacific and Union Pacific

Vaccines

1870

Louis Pasteour discovers vaccines

Steamship

1870

By a number of inventions, such as the screw propeller, the compound engine, and the triple-expansion engine made trans-oceanicshipping on a large escale economicaly viable.

Asia and Africa conquered

Period: 1870 to 1914

Great Britain and France conquered Asia and Africa

Second Industrial Rebolution

Period: 1870 to 1914

Also known like Technological Rebolution

Telephone

Mar 10, 1876

Alexander Graham Bell spoke into his device and said to the assisstant "Mr Watson, come here I want to see you"

Light Bulb

1879

Thomas Edison creates the Light Bulb

Oil extraction

1885

The invention of combustion engine led t its use for cars and lorries, the base for transport.

Skycraper

1885

The refinement of the Bessember process, was first used in the United States in the 1860s, it allowed for the major advanced in skycraper construction.

Radio

Period: 1886 to 1889

Hertz proves the priciples of eletromagnetic waves. Marconi invented the radio

Bayonet Construction

1887

Queen Liliuakalni is Dethroned

1894

Cinema

1895

The Lumière brothers invented cinema

Theodore Roosevelt formed the Rough Riders

1898

The U.S.S Maine was sunked

1898

U.S gained control of Cuba and Puerto Rico

1898

U.S gained rights to the Canal and bought out French construction for 40 milion

1903

Firts Plane

1903

Oliver and Wilbur Wright invnet the first plane

First car

1908

Henry Ford invents the first car, Model T