The second Industrial Revolution

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    Second Industrial Revolution

  • New work organisation

  • New sources of energy

    Petroleum and electricity.
  • Progress of industry

    Metallurgy and chemical industry
  • New means of transport

    Railway, tram and subway’ lines; automobile and aeroplanes.
  • New communications

    The telephone, the phonograph, the cinematograph, and the radio.

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