The Second Industrial Revolution

Question 1

What material allowed for the creation of more robust mechanical devices and
vehicles?

Answer 1

Steel

Question 2

What nation lead development in the field of chemicals?

Answer 2

Germany

Question 3

Germany focused heavily on the discovery of artificial what?

Answer 3

Dyes

Question 4

Who developed dynamite and what was it primarily used for?

Answer 4

Alfred Nobel – Construction of tunnels, mines, roads, oil wells, quarry.

Question 5

Where did England import fertilizer from?

Answer 5

South American countries like Peru – Guano – bat shit

Question 6

What was the first device to make effective use of electricity?

Answer 6

The telegraph

Question 7

Who invented the lightbulb?

Answer 7

Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan

Question 8

What new source of power was invented in 1897, and who was it invented by?

Answer 8

Diesel Engine – Rudolf Diesel

Question 9

Gustav de Laval invented what in 1877?

Answer 9

Centrifugal Cream Separator

Question 10

Name three other manufacturing inventions of this time?

Answer 10

1. Sewing machine
2. Teletype – combination of telegraph and typewriter
3. Telephone

Question 11

The main impact of new bacteriology was in ___?

Answer 11

1870-1940