Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

The First Industrial Revolution, which began in the 18th century, merged into the Second Industrial Revolution around 1850, when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development of steam-powered ships, railways, and later in the 19th century with the internal combustion engine and electrical power generation.

Steel is often cited as the first of several new areas for industrial mass-production, which are said to characterise a " Second Industrial Revolution ", beginning around 1850, although a method for mass manufacture of steel was not invented until the 1860s, when Sir Henry Bessemer invented a new furnace which could convert wrought iron into steel in large quantities.

Traditional conflict of law rules were widely perceived as too rigid and unresponsive to the needs of a highly mobile society undergoing the Second Industrial Revolution.

" Technology " rose to prominence in the 20th century in connection with the Second Industrial Revolution.

They occurred at the core period of the Second Industrial Revolution.

The Economic Consequences of Mr. Keynes: How the Second Industrial Revolution Passed Great Britain By.

Set in France's Second Empire, the series traces the " environmental " influences of violence, alcohol and prostitution which became more prevalent during the second wave of the Industrial Revolution.

Second, the American Federation of Labor and some employers accused the NLRB of favoring the Congress of Industrial Organizations, particularly when determining whether to hold union elections in plant-wide, or wall-to-wall, units, which the CIO usually sought, or to hold separate elections in separate craft units, which the craft unions in the AFL favored.

* An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / Second A-Chronology 1936-2003 ( 2003 ) – Industrial Ambients ( recorded in 1980-82 )

Louisiana Tech University opened as The Industrial Institute and College of Louisiana in 1894 during the Second Industrial Revolution.

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Inspired by the February 1843 parliamentary report exposing the effects of the Industrial Revolution upon poor children called Second Report of the Children's Employment Commission, Dickens planned in May 1843 to publish an inexpensive political pamphlet tentatively titled, " An Appeal to the People of England, on behalf of the Poor Man's Child " but changed his mind, deferring the pamphlet's production until the end of the year.

Its development is typical of the Second Industrial Revolution – the creation of new light engineering industries on the edge of existing cities.

Like the typewriter, these machines were products of the second phase of the industrial revolution which started near the end of the 19th century ( also called the Second Industrial Revolution ).

The effects of these assumptions of European superiority increased during the period of European imperialism, which started slowly in the 15th century, accelerated by the Scientific Revolution, the Commercial Revolution and the rise of colonial empires in the " Great Divergence " of the Early Modern period, and reached its zenith in the 18th to 19th century with the Industrial Revolution and a Second European colonization wave.

In the 19th century, the term “ conspicuous consumption ” was introduced by the economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen ( 1857 – 1929 ), in the book The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions ( 1899 ), to describe the behavioural characteristics of the nouveau riche ( new rich ) social class who emerged as a result of the accumulation of capital wealth during the Second Industrial Revolution ( ca.

As a small-scale producer during the decades of the Second Industrial Revolution in France, Joseph Gambetta had chain groceries taking business away from his establishment.

Post Second World War industry has ranged from the manufacture of glue ( Industrial Adhesives ) to aluminium-based packaging ( Alcan ), Aluminium & Bronze Casting ( Draycast Foundries ) and balloons ( B-Loony ).

By the late nineteenth century, the United States had become a leading global industrial power, building on new technologies ( such as the telegraph and steel ), an expanding railroad network, and abundant natural resources such as coal, timber, oil and farmland, to usher in the Second Industrial Revolution.

Land and labor, the diversity of climate, the ample presence of railroads ( as well as navigable rivers ), and the natural resources all fostered the cheap extraction of energy, fast transport, and the availability of capital that powered this Second Industrial Revolution.

Where the First Industrial Revolution shifted production from artisans to factories, the Second Industrial Revolution pioneered an expansion in organization, coordination, and the scale of industry, spurred on by technology and transportation advancements.

* Revolution of 1930: Second military overthrow of government, in which President Washington Luís was replaced by Getúlio Vargas, who became the Provisional President.

Central to classical liberal ideology was their interpretation of John Locke's Second treatise of government and " A letter concerning toleration ", which had been written as a defence of the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

After the takeover of the Republican government by Yuan Shikai and the failed Second Revolution in 1913, Chiang, like his KMT comrades, divided time between exile in Japan and the havens of the Shanghai International Settlement.

* 1848 – The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.

Chosen by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to be commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, Washington managed to force the British out of Boston in 1776, but was defeated and almost captured later that year when he lost New York City.

Here, Goebbels discovered his talent as a propagandist, writing such tracts as 1926's The Second Revolution and Lenin or Hitler.

* 1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.

Through the efforts and influence of the Spanish Anarchists during the Spanish Revolution within the Spanish Civil War, starting in 1936 anarchist communism existed in most of Aragon, parts of the Levante and Andalusia, as well as in the stronghold of Anarchist Catalonia before being crushed by the combined forces of the regime that won the war, Hitler, Mussolini, Spanish Communist Party repression ( backed by the USSR ) as well as economic and armaments blockades from the capitalist countries and the Second Spanish Republic itself.

The June Days Uprising during the Second Republic was an attempt by the left to assert itself after the 1848 Revolution, but only a small portion of the population supported this.

* Brush, Stephen G., The History of Modern Science: A Guide to the Second Scientific Revolution, 1800 – 1950, Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1988

In 1776, the Thirteen Colonies, acting through the Second Continental Congress, declared political independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution.

In 1889, on the centennial of the French Revolution of 1789, the Second International was founded, with 384 delegates from 20 countries representing about 300 labour and socialist organisations.

French demographer, anthropologist and historian Alfred Sauvy, in an article published in the French magazine L ' Observateur, August 14, 1952, coined the term Third World, referring to countries that were unaligned with either the Communist Soviet bloc or the Capitalist NATO bloc during the Cold War His usage was a reference to the Third Estate, the commoners of France who, before and during the French Revolution, opposed priests and nobles, who composed the First Estate and Second Estate, respectively.

The Second Republic of France is set up, ending the state of temporary government lasting since the Revolution of 1848.

* January 2 – American Revolution – Second Battle of Trenton: George Washington's army fights the Second Battle of Trenton, New Jersey.

* October 7 – American Revolution – Second Battle of Saratoga: Battle of Bemis Heights: British General John Burgoyne is defeated by American troops.

* March 23 – American Revolution: Patrick Henry, a delegate to the Second Virginia Convention after the Virginia House of Burgesses was disbanded by the Royal Governor, delivers his " Give me Liberty, or give me Death!

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

He saw action in the First World War, where he was seriously wounded, and during the Second World War he commanded the Eighth Army from August 1942 in the Western Desert until the final Allied victory in Tunisia.

The Second World War saw the British army develop its Special Air Service, Commando units and the Parachute Regiment.

The Second Great Awakening, a period of religious revival that occurred in the U. S. during the early 1800s, saw the development of a number of unrelated churches.

Neo-classical liberals, who called themselves " true liberals ", saw Locke's Second Treatise as the best guide, and emphasised " limited government ", while social liberals supported government regulation and the welfare state.

The First and Second Congo Wars saw great destruction of transport infrastructure from which the country has not yet recovered.

The club's first league game, playing in the Second Division's 1907 – 8 season, saw them lose 1 – 0 at home to Hull City in September 1907.

During the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 54 ), the Foreign Legion saw its numbers swell due to the incorporation of Second World War veterans who couldn't adapt to civilian life.

The Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911 saw another dispute over Morocco erupt when France tried to suppress a revolt there.

In 1854, The Second Empire joined the Crimean War, which saw France and Britain opposed to the Russian Empire, which was decisively defeated at Sevastopol in 1854-1855 and at Inkerman ( 1854 ).

The Second World War saw the introduction of widespread and effective antimicrobial therapy with the development and mass production of penicillin antibiotics, made possible by the pressures of the war and the collaboration of British scientists with the American pharmaceutical industry.

The five decades after the Second World War saw Finland turn from a war-ravaged agrarian society into one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, with a sophisticated market economy and high standard of living.

This policy was criticised by Thatcher and others who saw the Bosnian Muslims as the main victims of Serb aggression and compared the situation to events in the Second World War.

In August 1940, Ribbentrop oversaw the Second Vienna Award, which saw about 40 % of Transylvania region of Romania returned to Hungary.

The 1930s and 1940s, which saw the rise of totalitarian states and the Second World War, are arguably the " Golden Age of Propaganda ".

The Second Republic saw the proliferation of political activity which had been repressed under the Rhee regime.

The Second Republic saw the hwan lose half of its value against the dollar between fall 1960 and spring 1961.

The 1950s and 1960s were, however, relatively prosperous times after the Second World War, and saw the beginning of a modernisation of the UK, with the construction of its first motorways for example, and also during the 1960s a great cultural movement began which expanded across the world.

He thus saw the end of the Second Anglo-Afghan War, First Boer War and the war against the Mahdi in Sudan.

This continued until after the Second World War, which saw the creation of the African Agricultural Trade Union, as well as the first conferences of its chief.

Second, he admitted that he saw an " awakening " (" Aufbruch ") which might help to find a " new national and social approach ," but said that he changed his mind about this in 1934, largely prompted by the violence of the Night of the Long Knives.

The garrison saw only limited use between 1918 and 1934, but was then reactivated in preparation for the Second World War.

Over the period of the First Intifada and Second Intifada the Jewish community was subjected to attacks by Palestinian militants, especially during the periods of the Intifadas ; which saw 3 fatal stabbings and 9 fatal shootings in between the first and second Intifada ( 0. 9 % of all fatalities in Israel and the West Bank ) and 17 fatal shootings ( 9 soldiers and 8 settlers ) and 2 fatalities from a bombing during the second Intifada, and thousands of rounds fired on it from the hills above the Abu-Sneina and Harat al-Sheikh neighbourhoods.

The election saw the coming to power of Jacksonian Democracy, thus marking the transition from the First Party System ( which reflected Jeffersonian Democracy ) to the Second Party System.