THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND EARLY CAPITALISM By HOLA12321 Period: 1750 to 1869 Firts Industrial Revolution 1769 Invention of the steam engine (James Watt) 1776 Publication of An Inquiry into the Nature and causes of the wealth of nations, by Adam Smith 1825 Invention of the locomotive (George Stephenson) 1825 Approval of the Enclosure Acts 1854 Invention of the Bessemer converter(Henry Bessemer) 1860 Inventrion of the telephone (Antonio Meucii) 1862 Invention of the combustion engine Period: 1870 to 1910 Second Industrial Revolution 1876 Presentation of the telephone by Alexander Graham 1879 Invention of the light bulb (Thomas Alva Edison) 1879 Presentation of the first automobile (Carl Friedrich Benz) 1896 Wireless telegraph (Guglielmo Marconi) 1903 Fight of the Wright Brothers 1908 Beginning of production of the ford model T (Henry Ford)