Machine Age

Metalworking machinery
A freight locomotive
Bonneville Dam (1933-37)

The Machine Age[1][2][3] is an era that includes the early 20th century, sometimes also including the late 19th century. An approximate dating would be about 1880 to 1945. Considered to be at a peak in the time between the first and second world wars, it forms a late part of the Second Industrial Revolution. By the mid to late 1940s, the atom bomb,[4] the first computers,[5] and the transistor came into being,[6] beginning the contemporary era of Digital Revolution and thus ending the intellectual model of the machine age founded in the mechanical and heralding a new more complex model of high technology.

Universal chronology

Atomic Age Cold War World War II Nazism New Deal Social liberalism Progressive Era Gilded Age Second Industrial Revolution 1940s Great Depression Roaring Twenties 1910s 1900s (decade) Gay Nineties 1880s

Developments

Artifacts of the Machine Age include:

Social influence

Environmental influence

International relations

Arts and architecture

Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912) by Marcel Duchamp displays Cubist and Futurist characteristics

The Machine Age is considered to have influenced:

See also

References

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