Second Industrial Revolution
1870–1914 · Event
The wave of electrification, chemicals, internal combustion and mass communication that transformed industry between the Franco-Prussian War and World War I.
On these timelines: Industrial Revolution, Science & Technology, Economic History, Master
More from Industrial Revolution
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Chartism / People's Charter (1838)
- London sewer system / Bazalgette (1859)
- James Watt (1736)
- Highland Clearances (1750)
Around 1870
- German unification (1871)
- Winston Churchill (1874)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung premieres (1876)