Revolutions: Industrial and Political

Samuel Morse develops the system of Morse Code that can be electrically sent by cable to send messages between cities. By 1866 a trans-atlantic cable is laid connecting Europe with America, and by 1902 a trans-Pacific cable is laid across the Pacific Ocean. The invention of the telephone replaced the effectiveness of the telegraph.

Joseph Lister develops the first antiseptic methods of mecical surgery

The Second Industrial Revolution used electric power to create mass production.

Dr. Robert Koch discovers germ theory as the source of infections in medicine.

Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates the first successful use of the telphone

German Flocken Elektrowagen

Guglielmo Marconi develops radio into a commercially viable system of wireless communication

Henri Becquerel, Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein and successive scientists develop the theory and practice of atomic theory that leads to nuclear power and the invention of atomic bombs and nuclear weapons.

Henry Ford improves the mass production of automobile assembly lines with the introduction of the Model T Ford

Frederick Banting and Charles Best develop insulin as a treatment for diabetes. By 1923 it begins to be mass-produced by Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company.

Charles Lindbergh becomes the first to fly an airplane non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean between America and Europe

Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin. It first becomes a mass produced antibiotic drug during World War II

In Britain, Robert Watson-Watt develops the first viable radar system. This invention will give an advantage to the Allied forces during World War II as they were able to locate ships at sea or airplanes.

First regular successful transoceanic airlines begin and grow worldwide after World War 2 ends in 1945

RCA introduces the first regular system of television broadcasting and imaging. They debut their system of broadcasting at the New York World's Fair later that year

The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production. The invention of transistors, computer technology, semiconductor chips, the Internet and personal communications develops from the end of World War II. See The Economist https://www.economist.com/leaders/2012/04/21/the-third-industrial-revolution

The first comprehensive national health service

The Soviet Union launched the first satellite into Space in 1957. They followed with the first manned orbit of the earth by Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin. By 1969 the Americans sent a manned mission to the Moon that successfully landed on the moon and returned to earth.

Motorola introduces the first mass-produced mobile phone in 1973.

First Personal Computers are released by Apple Computer and by Commodore Compter companies

The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production. Now a Fourth Industrial Revolution is building on the Third, the digital revolution that has been occurring since the middle of the last century. It is characterized by a fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-what-it-means-and-how-to-respond/