How Did The Second Industrial Revolution Influence The Economic Development Of America

At the 19th century, America had its second Industrial Revolution. After this second Industrial Revolution, the industrial of the America got unprecedented development, such as the productivity. Productivity as one of the most important element of a country. It laid the foundation for the economic development of a country. Before the second Industrial Revolution, the American people used to focus on light textile industry as the main industry development. However, the American people transed their focus from light textile industry to heavy industry. For this reason, electric, chemistry, petroleum, and coal mines, etc, started coming out one by one. From the beginning of Thomas Alva Edison discovered the new energy---electricity and invented light bulb. The range of using electricity got extremely increased. After the discovery of electricity, petroleum and Coal mines, became the new energy instead of steam. The petroleum and Coal mine, start appearing at cars, ships, and plane, etc. This promoted the transportation development of the America.
As the requirement of petroleum and Coal mine, start increasing, another problem appeared at same time. This problem also influence the world that we are living now. Since the huge requirement of petroleum and Coal mine, they cause atmosphere pollution. When using these new energy, soot, sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and other harmful pollutants will be produced. It also pollute land and water. For this reason, people had to use flashlight in the morning while they are walking on the street. Also many people and plants got poisoned by the pollutants. Because of the water pollution, some country banned caught fish in the