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Telegraph
The origin of the telegraph dates back to the end of the 18th century. Claude Chappe invented in 1794 a communication system by which a visual signal was emitted which, in turn, could be repeated in the distance. It was what we know as the optical telegraph. From a central station a message was transmitted through this device. This message was received in a second telegraph, which was far from the first, to then repeat the received signal. -
Electricity
The energy arose thanks to the invention of the dynamo and the alternators and transformers.
Electricity was then used everywhere: industry, transport, communication systems, entertainment, lightning. -
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. -
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. -
Telephone
A significant invention of the late period of the Industrial Revolution was the telephone, which was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. The telephone had a huge impact on the communication during the industrial revolution because it lets you communicate much faster. -
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. -
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.
