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With the second wave of Industrial Revolution the process of globalization gained speed. The growing complexity of management led to problems of control that required the development of new information technology. The first serious steps towards science based technology were made.
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Koetsier, T. (2019). The Second Wave of Industrial Revolution: Railroads and Steel. In: The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96547-5_9
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