NATS 1775 Lecture 7: Chapter 7
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The main features of the second industrial revolution: happened in the second half of the 19th century, shift of technological leadership to younger countries like germany and usa from the. Germans: the research laboratory and the phd as training grounds for high-level technicians: professional engineers and industrial scientists, this german model was later on imitated by other countries like the uk. The birth of the chemical industry: august von hofmann and coal tar research in hopes of turning it into something profitable-a consumer product, 1856, serendipitous synthesis of mauve dye by william perkin at royal college in. Innovation turned into routine scientific mass labour wwi, the chemist"s war . Synthetic nitrates for fertilizers and explosives this process also led to a great increase productivity of agriculture. Poison gases: 1920s industry consolidation into i. g. Farben stood behind the nazi regime and enabled the regime with explosives, fuels, etc.