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S01E02: The Gilded Age: Robber Barons, Rockefeller, Carnegie & the Second Industrial Revolution (1877–1900)
Title: The Gilded Age: Robber Barons, Rockefeller, Carnegie & the Second Industrial Revolution (1877–1900)
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After the Civil War, America's economy exploded — population tripled, manufacturing grew sixfold — and Mark Twain looked at the result and called it not golden but gilded: gold on the surface, something harder underneath. This episode traces the Second Industrial Revolution that built modern America: the telegraph and transatlantic cable, Bell's telephone and Edison's phonograph, Tesla and Westinghouse's electricity and the skyscraper city it powered. We follow the…
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