The Impact of the Second Industrial Revolution on Europe One century after Britain had under gone the first Industrial Revolution, a second begun. Industry made its way across continental Europe. It was this Second Industrial Revolution that would change Europe and the rest of the world forever. Along with technological advances the Second Industrial Revolution would bring many social consequences that would all have an effect on the world, as we knew it. The Industrial Revolution was first a technological Revolution. The most important aspect of the revolution was the way it changed the production and transpo