"Learn from the past, look to the future, and live wisely today."

     The technological revolution we are experiencing today i would have to say is similar, while at the same time very different from the second industrial revolution. The technological revolution we are experiencing today is for the most part is items being invented, just in a way that would make things more efficient for us. During the 1800s i would say the idea of inventing something was a lot more difficult that it is now.
     Resources were few back then, so you had to be fairly intelligent to create some so intricate and effective. In this day in time we have so many resources that it seems like the Internet could build something for us, all we would have to do is follow its instructions. I cannot say that the revolution we are experiencing today isn't doing anything for us. This breakthrough in technology has saved lived, improved efficiency in may aspects, and help the United States progress.
   I think that we can learn a lot from our forefathers though. Those men were very wise in what they did and how they did it. They took time through trial and error, and didn't give up until they accomplished what they started. I think we can learn a lot from that alone. Success doesn't come easy, it comes with time, patience, and hard work.
 In closing i would like to say that the Second Industrial Revolution changed the way we as Americans looked at life, and also changed the we operated. Im sure there are many more revolutions to come in the future, and we must not be to anxious to get there. Cause when it does come, greatest will happen.


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Honorable Mentions.(Communication)

Sending messages back then wasn't very easy. Today we can exchange messages in a matter of seconds. Emails, text messages, social networks, you name it all, thats how we're used to getting messages to people. Back in the 1800s, I would picture sending letters and such had to be the most aggravating thing. Simply cause the time that it would take to send a letter could range anywhere from 3 to 5 weeks. Alot can change in that period of time so the letter might not even be relevant anymore.
      Around 1837 things started to take a major change. Samuel B. Morse came up with a way of communication through morse code. Through this he basically could rely information through electrical lines. As this system began to grow and as the railroads began to grow, telegraph wires were beginning to get attached to railway poles. This stretched the way of communication by far. 
     Roughly 36 years later, communication took an even bigger step. Alexander Grahm Bell found a way to transmit voices without wires and cables, this was called a bell phone or a telephone. He worked on his invention for sometime, and eventually successfully got it to work. Years after his invention was created, there was about 1 million phones across the nation in peoples houses.

     Through that same year came another yet amazing invention. The typewritter Christopher Sholes who was a Milwaukee printer wanted to find a to way to create a typing machine. Through trial and error Sholes worked until he was successful. His invention soon changed the way in which people sent messages.

Honorable Mentions.(Charles and J. Frank Duryea)

          Charles and J. Frank Duryea built the first usable motorized vehicle here in the United States. They didnt just happen to think about it and build though. Nikolaus A. Otto, a German engineer came with the concept and invented the first internal combustion engine. That sparked a light in many peoples mind, and soon the idea spread all across the globe. Charles and J. Frank Duryea got to working and built the first car in 1893. Cars weren't also the most affordable item to have back then either. 'The average worker was making about $500 a year, and the average cost of a new car was $2,000. That seems kinda hard to picture, but thats what life was back then.

Wright Brothers.

Honorable Mentions.

Along the period of the Industrial Revolution, many people that we now recognize as greats today in our society were just getting planted on their feet. The Wright brothers were two bicycle mechanics who flew their way into much success. Through much trial and error the Wright brothers put together the first ever aircraft, and after multiples were finally successful. If they hadn't created such an invention I'm sure it still would've eventually discovered by someone else, but the Wright brothers did. 

  

Mass Markets!

As the railroads grew, many industries took leaps forward also. Industries began to rely on a new type of marketing structure. This new way of marketing would reach more people which in return would increase products by a lot. Through mass marketing companies were able to advertise there business through magazines and store books. In major cities, things were being made a lot quicker and faster cause of the higher demand on items and goods. The way of transportation through railroads made it possible for people to order things from catalogs and have it shipped to them instead of them having to get them. This mainly appealed to housewife's, and was a good marketing structure for them. While this all was good, some things got bad. Over producing of items and of meats was a common thing during this time. So meat would generally be wasted or sold a fairly low cost. The impact of mass marketing was great, it sought to paint a bigger picture for marketing which in turn it did.

What effect does it have on me now?

Industrial Revolution??? Huh? What does it have to do with me?

       That might be the reply you would get from someone today. What did the Industrial Revolution have to do with me one may ask. The importance of the IR on this country was very crucial. Many of the things that we have today wouldn't have even been thought about yet. Cell phones, Computers, Cars, high power electricity, sky scrappers, and everything else under the sun wouldn't have even come to happen if it weren't for the revolution.

   I think that the Industrial Revolution hit us at the perfect time. The first Industrial Revolution accounted for first took off in Europe. Over there they were starting to make major advances in different post, and were successful at it. The time were it hit the United States bought both prosperity and hope of a better tomorrow for the country . Although for some the time period was very hard, the boom the the Second Industrial Revolution was a starting platform for America to succeed. 

Floods would ofter cause damage to the rail lines. It wasn't easy work.

Railway Expansion! (Pt.2)

      While the threating attacks of the Indians was  intended to discontinue the laying of tracks of the intricate railway system, it didn't. The workers kept laying down tracks day after day until the whole job was completed fully. The final results of this tedious work bought more oppurtunites to the Country. People could go Westward, Southward, or Northward, it didn't matter. People had the freedom to go all across the United States now in a quicker, and more efficient way. A major outcome of the railway system bought about what we now call standard time. It split America into different time zones, so that people in close communities could all be running on one even time. In end the transcontinental railway had boughten much success to America, along with many other industries.

Railway Expansion!

         The industry of the railroads wasn't anything new for the people of the United States during the second industrial revolution. People were already familiar with this way of transportation. This industry was previously successful in its works, but around the 1860's it boomed. 

        Railroads were previously already crossing through the Northwest and Southeast parts of the United States, even around the Great Lakes area. The part where the railroad industry struck gold, was when the United States congress commissioned and aided for a transcontinental railway to be made.  "The Union Pacific laid tracks westward from Omaha, Nebraska. It hired thousands of Irish, German, English, African American, and Native American workers to build its part of the line." 

      Working near Nebraska wasn't much of a hassle because the terrain there was mainly rolling hills and prairies. "Workers for the Central Pacific laid track toward the east, starting in Sacramento, California. These workers—primarily Chinese—labored on tougher terrain. They had to cross deserts and blast through the granite mountains on the California-Nevada border. " Laying down tracks for the Central workers was a bit more difficult mainly for the sense that Native Indians were killing off many of the workers.

Industries Arise!(Pt.2)-Oil Industry

As Industries began to rise in the late 1800's people were on the run to try and find things that weren't discovered yet. During the perioid of time oil started to become a major investemtnt, and the demand for it began to get higher. It became the prominnet fuel in big cities at this time, and it was also used as a lubricant for the machinery that was found in the factoires. Edwin L. Drake was a man hired to go and extract oil from the ground in Pensylvania. After a while of digging he and his team hit a oil pocket. Soon after, people all over the United States began to dig for oil. People were stricking pockets in Texas, and places all over.  That soon started many oil companies, and business began to flourish from it.

Industries Arise!

   In the 1850's two inventors began to work on a new way to make steel. William Kelly, an inventor from the United States began working on a way to improve the way steel was produced. The second gentlemen, Henry Bessemer from England began working on a process that soon becamed patented.
  Soon after this process was named the Bessemer process. Kellys way was tried in factories, but wasnt too successful. So American steel mills quickly picked up the Bessemer process, which speeded up production of steel. Through the Bessemer process steel had reach an all time low on cost. The steel was alot cheaper than iron, less brittle than the iron way, and mending it was alot eaiser.

  Construction Industries soon saw this as a way to improve transportation ways. Soon bigger bridges were being made out of steel, along with taller buildings. With the low cost things such as nails and wire were very affordable for almost all families. By 1873, the United States was a superproducer of steel.

Introduction to the Second Industrial Revolution.

     In the early 1800's life started to gradually began to shift from a simplistic enviorment to a more technological era. Water and steam where most popular for power during the early 1800's. Goods and items were made in peoples homes, and were taken out through horseback to sell to towns and communities.

    Around the time the late 1800's hit, things began to take a rapid fast change. Technology began to maximize the way or rather the speed things here done. Electric power started taking over steam and water power very rapidly. People began to work in factories rather then working from inside their homes. The faster ways of transport moved goods to people alot faster than it had ever had before.