AP World History: Modern / Unit 5: Revolutions (c. 1750–1900)
5.5 Technology of the Industrial Age
Notes
New technology: steam engines, railroads, steamships, the telegraph, the Bessemer process, and later the Second Industrial Revolution (electricity, chemicals, internal combustion engine).
Practice
The Second Industrial Revolution featured:
Late 1800s.
The telegraph allowed:
Morse code.
Steamships helped industrial powers by:
Global reach.
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