Still, the new wave of inventions labeled Second Industrial Revolution (1871-1914) is considered as a particularly significant period for the development of human society.

The second Industrial Revolution--from the 1870s to the 1910s--witnessed the invention of the telephone, internal-combustion engine and electric lightbulb as well as the germ theory of disease ...

The second industrial revolution revolved around the discovery of electricity, gas and oil. The invention of the combustion engine perpetuated the use of these energy sources, allowing steel and ...

What seemed to finalize the impact of the Watt engine on the Industrial Revolution was his creation of the double-acting engine. Doubling the efficiency, it condensed steam both above and below ...