Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Second Industrial Revolution is generally dated from 1870 to 1914, when World War I began. One author described the period from 1867 to 1914 as "The Age of Synergy" because the era's inventions were engineering- and science-based and reinforced one another.
The Second Industrial Revolution was driven primarily by the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States, but also involved France, Italy, Japan, and the Low Countries. By 1900, Britain accounted for 24 percent of world industrial production, followed by the US at 19 percent and Germany at 13 percent.
Sir Henry Bessemer invented the Bessemer process, which allowed mass production of steel by removing excess carbon and impurities from molten pig iron using an air blast. It increased the scale and speed of steel production while greatly reducing labor requirements, enabling the cheap steel that underpinned railways, bridges, and skyscrapers.
The Savoy Theatre in the city of Westminster, London, was the first theater and the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity. Sir Joseph Swan supplied approximately 1,200 incandescent lamps to the theater in 1881.
Karl Benz patented the world's first automobile in 1886 and began selling it as the Benz Patent Motorwagen in the late summer of 1888. It was the first automobile entirely designed to generate its own power, featuring a four-stroke engine, wire wheels, coil ignition, evaporative cooling, and rear-axle drive via roller chains.
Mass production methods developed at Ford Motor Company drove the price of the Model T from $780 in 1910 to $360 in 1916. By 1924, two million T-Fords were being produced annually and sold for $290 each.