The second industrial revolution was driven by Ford, and others, who created mass production and moving assembly lines.
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The railroads were so domineering that the U.S. led the way in the Second Industrial Revolution and its economy boomed.
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Meanwhile, emergency crews have begun draining a second industrial reservoir at the spill site to prevent a repeat of the disaster.
It bends upward again with the second industrial revolution of the late 1800s built on the internal combustion engine, electricity and telephony.
It takes another upward bend with the second industrial revolution in the late 1800s, built on the internal combustion engine, electricity and telephony.
So Stelios is bringing in the cafe industry's second industrial wave.
China wants to enhance its domestic production as a pricing hedge, all while the U.S. considers domestic energy development to be nothing short of a second industrial revolution.
For companies such as AgilOne, the new face of digital marketing, if not a second Industrial Revolution, is a newly highly personal and focused approach derived from assembling mass quantities of data.
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They fail to address the larger structural problems with our current socioeconomic system, and more than that, they fail to capitalize on the emerging cleantech boom that some call the Second Industrial Revolution.
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Whether any company flourishes or fails in the volatile period of transition between an aging Second Industrial Revolution and the emerging Third Industrial Revolution will depend, to a great extent, on their energy costs.
The golden age of American productivity growth followed what is called the second industrial revolution, in 1860-1900, which yielded a cluster of genuinely paradigm-shifting inventions: electric power, the internal combustion engine, modern industrial chemistry and telecommunications.
Saltaire, West Yorkshire, is a complete and well-preserved industrial village of the second half of the 19th century.
The strike is the second major industrial dispute the country has seen after a strike by taxi drivers in June 2007.
The combined company will have recorded sales of JPY 12 trillion (USD 150 billion) making it the second largest industrial company in Japan after Toyota.
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Coimbatore is a second-tier industrial town in the steamy-hot south of India with no cosmopolitan flair.
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But the latest moves come as new figures show Spanish industrial production fell for the second consecutive month in October.
Kumar Mangalam Birla, 30, became chairman of nine companies in the Aditya Birla group, India's second-largest industrial house, after his father died in late 1995.
Toru Hashimoto, governor of Osaka prefecture, Japan's second-biggest industrial hub, is campaigning on a promise to build a similar megalopolis, though against opposition from local mayors.
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The recovery in the Dow Industrial Average resulted in the second weekly close above 14, 000 in February with the first such weekly close occurring on February 2.
Turning to the manufacturing sector, industrial production notched higher a second solid month in a row in December, though the headline number of 0.3% was deceptively low, thanks to weak production at utilities.
Nonetheless, REIT research firm Green Street Advisors expects industrial development to quicken in the second half of the year.
South Carolina has the second-highest concentration of industrial engineers in the country, after Michigan.
ArcelorMittal estimated that shipments will decline in the second half of 2011 as industrial consumers built up their raw material inventories during the first half.
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The merger is the last hurrah for Larry Bossidy, the growly boss of AlliedSignal, who is arguably America's second-most-admired industrial manager after his old boss, Jack Welch of General Electric.
In the United States, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 277 points, its second biggest gain in 2012, after the European leaders announced their plan.
If I had to guess I would say that the May-June decrease in industrial production is a harbinger, that the second half of 2012 will see Russia grow at a greatly reduced rate, and that overall 2012 GDP growth will just under 3%.
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For the second month in a row, Brazil industrial production showed negative y-o-y growth of -1.3%.
On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 15, 000 for a second day, yet another record finish.
Markets inched higher Thursday, the Dow Jones industrial average creeping above 12, 000 for the second time this week, after economic news subdued upward movement.
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