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Mohammad Ali
Mohammad Ali was known as the father of Modern Egypt. He encouraged the people that it was time for Egypt to become more modern. He was the man who seized power from Egypt in the year 1805. -
British Colony of Singapore founded
Great Britain, under Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founded a new colony under the name of Malay Peninsula also known as Singapore. Britain then wanted control over the next kingdom to fall, Burma. They wanted to control Burma in order to protect their possessions in India. -
War Between Mexico and the United States
This war was between Meixco and the US over territories and Independence. The Americans belived in Manifest Destiny, which started all of this. The war lasted from 1846-1848, and Mexico was defeated and also lost at least 1/3 of its original territory. -
Transformation in science and technology
The Second Industrial Revolution was another great leap forward in technology and society. New innovations in steel production, petroleum and electricity led to the introduction of public automobiles and airplanes. -
Exploration and conquest during Imperialism
Before 1850 Africa, Asia and oceans were unknown to Europeans. The British and the French led expeditions that mapped out Africa -
The Imperialism
Imperialism is the state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other territories and peoples. -
The Second Industrial Revolution started
The Second Industrial Revolution was primarily in the United States as well as in the continental Europe. Was defined more by steel chemicals, electricity and petroleum or fuel oil. -
The Industrial Capitalism
Industrial capitalism saw the rapid development of the factory system of production, characterized by much more rigid, complex, and intricate divisions of labor, both within and between production processes, to which reference has already been made. -
Industrial dynamo
The dynamo machine was used to transform mechanical energy into electrical energy. And the invention of this machine was a consequence of the partial displacement of steam as a source of energy in 1873. -
Consequences of colonialism
Because the Industrial Revolution increased the production capacity of Western states astronomically, there was an enormous hunger for raw materials to satisfy demands. Thus, the Western powers sought colonies where raw materials were abundant and where they could be appropriated at little to no cost. -
Emigration Second Industrial Revolution
With the growth of factories and the demand for unskilled labor, immigrants, primarily young men in the working years, continued to be the ideal source of labor. Immigrants were generally more willing to accept lower wages and inferior working conditions than native born workers. -
The empires affected by the Second Industrial Revolution
The industrial revolution was the force behind this New Imperialism, as it created not only the need for Europe to expand, but the power to successfully take and profitably maintain so many colonies overseas. The industrial revolution created the need for Europe to take over colonies around the world. -
Aluminium industry
Aluminium was one of the newest metals to be discovered by humans. Aluminium does not occur naturally in its purest form so it was not discovered until the 19th century with developments in chemistry and the advent of electricity. Aluminium has gone on an incredibly interesting journey from a precious metal to the material used virtually in every sphere of human life in just one and a half centuries. -
King Leopold II of Belgium
King Leopold II was the real driving force behind the colonization of Central Africa. Leopold's claim to the vast territories of the Congo aroused widespreadbconcern among other European states. Leopold ended up with the territories around the Congo River. -
Telephone
Telephones made it easierr for businesses to communicate with each other. As the telephone network grew, it also expanded the area that a business could reach -
The New Imperialism
European states had been content, especiall in Africa and Asia, to set up a few trading post where there materials could be traded amoung. Imperialism was tied to Social Darwinism and racism. -
Berlin conference
Regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period -
Positive-ignition engines
Positive ignition engine means an internal combustion engine in which combustion is initiated by a localised high temperature in the combustion chamber produced by energy supplied from a source external to the engine. -
Car
The car is one of the symbols of the Second Industrial Revolution. In the first place because its development occurred thanks to the use of a new source of energy: oil. In 1859 the American Edwin Drake was the first man to drill an oil well, which gave rise to the birth of the oil industry and helped in the advancement of other sectors such as the chemical industry. And secondly, because it was in the automobile sector that new forms of work organization were applied for the first time. -
Radio
Radio was based on the wireless telegraphy system (TSH), which was used by the Marconi Company to connect two countries (Great Britain and France) and two continents (Europe and America) for the first time. It must be said that through these first radios signals were transmitted, but not sounds. The first to use the TSH to emit and reproduce sounds was Julio Cervera Baviera, who in 1902 connected Alicante and Ibiza. -
Cinematograph
The cinematograph was a motion picture film camera, which also served as a film projector and a printer. Was invented in Lyon by Auguste and Louis Lumière, who were famously known as the Lumiere brothers.
The cinematograph was a ground breaking invention as it allowed more than 1 person to view the 'motion picture' at a time, whereas the kinetoscope managed to showcase it to one indicuial at a time. -
The Art Second Industrial Revolution
Art of the Industrial Revolution tends to be pastoral, plein-aire, more often a reaction. We see the birth of Romanticism, Impressionism, and the Hudson River School dedicated to the majesty of nature. -
Taylorism
Science applied to management. Manufacturing is based on mass production to increase productivity and lower manufacturing costs.
Goods become manufatured in assembly lines where each worker performs a specific task. -
The Titanic
It was invented the 31/05/1909 and now a days it is one of the most important and famous ships or oceanliners.
