Industrial Revolution And World War 1 Essay

The relationship between the Second Industrial Revolution and World War I

How did the inventions of the Second Industrial Revolution, and especially the new ways of communications, affect the First World War? This is the question I will try to address throughout the semester. I will try to understand how the new elements of technology and the work of the scientists that contributed to the development of the world influenced the course and the outcome of the war. To what extent the new discoveries contributed to make this global conflict, known as the Great War, the deadliest conflict in history.

The Second Industrial Revolution, usually dated between 1870 and 1914, was a period of industrialization in which inventors such as Thomas Edison, Guglielmo Marconi, Alfred Nobel, Rudolph Diesel, and many others became known

I will focus on the aspect of the telecommunications, and how they made the process of the trade of information easier. I’m willing to discover how this rapid exchange of information and the other inventions, that were considered a triumph during the revolution influenced, in positive or negative, the outcome of the war. When we were first given this assignment, I thought about explaining how the relationship between people changed after Guglielmo Marconi invented and improved the telephone and the telegraph. However, after doing a preliminary research, I thought that showing the relationship between the products of these scientists’ minds and the conflict that spread hatred and death around the world, would be a lot more fascinating. Since I’m majoring in communications, I’m very interested to know how the first instruments that allowed the transmission of data arose, and how they affected the history of the world. I want to know how, something as good and important as the development of the society constituted, at the same time, a catastrophic element of