1, capital, the second industrial revolution greatly promoted the development of social productive forces, the human society's economic, political, cultural, military, science and technology and productivity has had a far-reaching impact. The socialization of capitalist production was greatly strengthened, and monopoly capital and monopoly organizations came into being.
2, the labor force: the first industrial revolution, many technological inventions come from the practical experience of craftsmen, science and technology have not yet been truly combined, and during the second industrial revolution, the new development of natural science, began to be closely integrated with industrial production, science in the promotion of productive forces to play a more important role in the development of its combination with technology so that the second industrial revolution achieved The combination of science and technology enabled the Second Industrial Revolution to achieve great results.
3, technology, the first industrial revolution first occurred in Britain, important new machines and new methods of production are mainly invented in Britain, the development process of the industrial revolution in other countries is relatively slow; and the second industrial revolution almost simultaneously in several advanced capitalist countries, new technologies and inventions more than a country's scope, the scale of its more extensive, and the development of relatively rapid.
4, market conditions, the second industrial revolution, so that the capitalist countries in the economy, culture, politics, military and other aspects, the development of the imbalance, the imperialist struggle for the market economy and the struggle for world hegemony more intense. The Second Industrial Revolution promoted the formation of the world colonial system, which led to the final establishment of the capitalist world system and the gradual emergence of the world as a whole.
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Major inventions of the Second Industrial Revolution:
1. The Second Industrial Revolution was most notable for the widespread use of electrical appliances.In 1866, the German Siemens made a generator; by the 1970s, practically usable generators were introduced. Subsequently, electric lights, trolleys, movie projectors, mankind has entered the "electrical age".
2, the progress of science and technology also led to the development of telecommunications. 1870s, the American Bell invented the telephone, 90s Italian Marconi experiments in wireless telegraphy achieved success.
3, to gas and gasoline as fuel for the birth of the internal combustion engine, the 90's diesel engine creation success. The invention of the internal combustion engine solved the problem of the engine of transportation. 80 years of success in the manufacture of automobiles driven by the internal combustion engine, internal combustion automobiles, ocean liners, airplanes and other rapid development. The invention of the internal combustion engine promoted the development of the oil extraction industry and the production of petrochemical industry.?
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