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050			_aE 661 _b.S58 1990 v. 6
100			_aSmith, Page. _965547
245		4	_aThe rise of industrial America : _ba people's history of the post-reconstruction era / _cPage Smith.
260			_aNew York, NY : _bPenguin Books, _c1990, c1984.
300			_axvi, 965 p. : _bill., map _c23 cm.
500			_aReprint. Originally published : New York : McGraw-Hill, c1984.
500			_aVolume six.
504			_aIncludes index.
520			_aFrom Wikipedia: Steel is often cited as the first of several new areas for industrial mass-production, which are said to characterise a "Second Industrial Revolution", beginning around 1850, although a method for mass manufacture of steel was not invented until the 1860s, when Sir Henry Bessemer invented a new furnace which could convert wrought iron into steel in large quantities. However, it only became widely available in the 1870s after the process was modified to produce more uniform quality. ~~~ This second Industrial Revolution gradually grew to include the chemical industries, petroleum refining and distribution, electrical industries, and, in the 20th century, the automotive industries, and was marked by a transition of technological leadership from Britain to the United States and Germany. ~~~ The introduction of hydroelectric power generation in the Alps enabled the rapid industrialisation of coal-deprived northern Italy, beginning in the 1890s. The increasing availability of economical petroleum products also reduced the importance of coal and further widened the potential for industrialisation. ~~~ By the 1890s, industrialisation in these areas had created the first giant industrial corporations with burgeoning global interests, as companies like U.S. Steel, General Electric, Standard Oil and Bayer AG joined the railroad companies on the world's stock markets."www.shelfari.com"
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