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Recommended Reading:
- Powerpoint presentation
- The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor
- From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932 by David Hounshell
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Daniel Yergin (this work, which won the Pulitzer Prize, goes beyond the time period covered in the lecture)
- Skyscrapers: A History of the World’s Most Extraordinary Buildings by Judith Dupre
Second Industrial Revolution – Quiz
- What technological innovation is often considered to have kicked off the Second Industrial Revolution?
- What two important sources of power were developed during the Second Industrial Revolution?
- Identify three technologies that improved transportation networks.
- Identify at least two important technologies of the Second Industrial Revolution first developed in the United States.
- Identify the technological and social changes that accompanied urbanization.
- Identify the overall results of the Second Industrial Revolution.
- development of Bessemer steel
- petroleum, electricity
- steamships, railroads, automobiles
- airplane, electricity, telephone
- development of transportation infrastructure, high-rises, problems of public health
- concentration of wealth, standardization in industry, growing political involvement of business and labor