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With steam engines, cities were able to have more sources of water, they were not required to travel long distances to get a hold of it anymore. This made it possible for people to move further away and start cities. The machinery started to become something people would not only work with but talk about every day, and this made it easier for it to become socially accepted even faster. Art and culture also had their own revolution and art was drastically transformed into many different and unique styles. The first industrial revolution had not just England; it had drastically forever changed the 1) England was now ready for another change, as life with machinery had just beginner to be assimilated into society. It wasn’t yet known that the second industrial revolution was already on its way to come. The second industrial revolution used the power of electricity to help new cities develop their technology and help home and social life. A British scientist known as Michael Faraday, started to explore how an electric current could be made, and it turned out successfully; making even bigger changes to this revolution in process.
Electric currents concept and principle is still in use today. Electricity improved the Way of life by supplying people with not only light, but as well needed; electricity to power machines. Communications obviously improved and enhanced as a result of electricity. The telephone and telegraph were the first communicational devices that were available to public use. ” (History. Com 3) It didn’t take too long for radio waves to be discovered with the advances and development of technology.
At this point of the revolution messages could already be sent over long distances in literally no time. As well as communication, life improvement and machinery improved; science was not falling behind in the revolution. Many new scientific advances were made. “The discovery of radioactivity by Marie Curie helped discover radioactivity as an important power source, but also led o the discovery of the known as the most dangerous weapon, the nuclear bomb. “(History. Com 3) Petroleum also begun to be widely used as an alternate energy source instead of coal.
And from there gasoline was also needed for transportation. This also changed the way machinery worked, and it went from steam engines to the internal combustion engine. “The internal combustion engine made transportation quicker and less 3) At this point a remarkable change was made, a person could now own a car instead of using public transportation. With all of the ewe improvements going on during this time, a new technology was born in the field of transportation. Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully finished the first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk.
From there the air plane industry was created and beginner to grow astonishingly fast. Medicine in the sass’s was never very well developed. Once a dangerous infection was set In, there was nothing left in doctor’s hands to do. Various diseases couldn’t be stopped or controlled because of limited research due to lack of technology. ” By the beginning of the 1 ass’s however, accusations were discovered and started to be 4), tested mainly on people older than 70 years old. Once they were known to be safe then they would be administered to children.
Many advances were made for the good improvement of people’s lives and at this point in the second industrial revolution X rays were also discovered and provided doctors with a not only quicker but less complicated or difficult way of diagnosing medical problems. “Along with this discovery Louis Pasteur fabricated bastardization; which is a way to eliminate all germs in 4), and is currently still used today. The technique involves heating the milk to very high powered temperatures to slow the fermentation process, which in fact kills all the bacteria.
Bastardization now days keeps millions of people from serious and even deadly diseases. On the other hand, “Art changed with the different ideas of social Darwinism, the laissez-fairer system and the industrial 1). Realism tried to capture what was going on outside everyone’s windows and behind the walls, all the sadness and tried to make people work to change what was happening. “Romanticism started painting emotions such as love, religion, ND beauty”(McKinney 1); things that as human beings we have no control over. It showed more of how people look at one moment in time than how they actually looked at a painting.
Known as a socialist; “Robert Owens reforms got the workers back in shape”. (Areola 2) He restricted minors of 11 years old from being allowed to work, he raised the pay and as well improved the working conditions. “Directly linked to Owens reforms disease and crime rates drastically dropped and life conditions improved. ” (Areola 2) All along this was the purpose of the well known socialist. In conclusion the Industrial Revolution brought with it major changes to our lives, beginning with technology, science, mechanics and social lives.
Eventually it had some noticeable disadvantages coming from it, but as we all know there are always sacrifices to be made before we get a reward. The way see it, people that couldn’t stand a chance of surviving “deadly” diseases gets to walk out of hospitals today completely cancer free or just healthy, all due to many advances and discoveries made from the Industrial Revolution. A lot of people only sees the bad it caused such as pollution and children irking for low wages but I believe God allows everything to happen for a reason.