章 640: Chapter 113, Technology

As the 19th century reached its latter stages, the Second Industrial Revolution began to gather full momentum, and technology innovations emerged one after another.

As the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, Austria was among the first to reap the benefits of technological advancement, with the domestic economy charging straight onto the expressway of development.

By the end of 1877, eighty percent of Austrian cities had already embraced electricity, and the remaining cities were in the process of doing so.

The speed of this proliferation surpassed everyone's imagination, and the fundamental reason for all these developments was the progress of technology.

Nobody expected that power generation technology would achieve another breakthrough in such a short time. The power output of generators had increased, with the coal consumption reduced to 450 grams to 630 grams per kilowatt-hour.