Second industrial revolution and Imperialism

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  • Opium Wars

    Opium Wars
    The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving Anglo-Chinese disputes over British trade in China and China's sovereignty.

  • Treaty of Kanagawa

    Treaty of Kanagawa
    A treaty allowing the opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.

  • Industrial dynamo

    Industrial dynamo
    Machine capable of transforming mechanical energy into electrical energy.

  • Telephone

    Telephone
    Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone is one of the most significant inventions of the Second Industrial Revolution.

  • Positive ignition engines

    Positive ignition engines
    The development of the internal combustion engine helped free men from the most adruous manual labor, made the airplane and other forms of transportation possible, and helped revolutionize power generation.

  • Berlin conference

    Berlin conference
    New Imperialism and coincides with the sudden emergence of Germany as an imperial power. The conference was organized by Otto von Bismark.

  • Maxime machine gun

    Maxime machine gun
    Hiram Maxim invented the first machine gun

  • French Indochina

    French Indochina
    Officially known as the Indochina Union and after 1947 as the Indochina Federation, it was a grouping of French colonial territories in Southeast Asia until its demise in 1954.

  • Swiss army knife

    Swiss army knife
    Carl Elsene invented the Swiss Army knife

  • Cinematograph

    Cinematograph
    It was a great invention for the advancement of cinema and technology in general.

  • Transformer

    Transformer
    Built on an unprecedented scale and a pioneer in the use of high-voltage alternating current (10000 V), it generated 800 kilowatts and supplied central London.

  • The boxer revelion

    The boxer revelion
    A Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there.

  • Boer war

    Boer war
    The discovery of gold and diamonds in the Boer republics in the 1880s further intensified the rivalry.

  • Electrostatic motor

    Electrostatic motor
    Elihu Thomson invented the electrostatic motor.

  • Flashlight

    Flashlight
    Conrad Hubert invented the flashlight.

  • Taylorism

    Taylorism
    A system to gain maximum efficiency from workers and machinery.

  • Airplane

    Airplane
    Wright brothers invented the first succesful airplane.

  • Zipper

    Zipper
    Gideon Sundback invented the zipper.

  • Panama Canal

    Panama Canal
    Made it so ships did not have to go around South Africa,

  • Toaster

    Toaster
    Charles Strite invented the toaster.