Late Modern Period By lenamgr 1690 frise 1750 European industrialization 1751 Publication of the first encyclopedia 1769 James watt’s steam engine 1774 Amerrican declaration of independance 1775 Beginnig of the American war independance 1777 Discovery of air composition 1789 French revolution 1859 Theory of evolution of species 1860 Pasterization 1869 The periodic table 1870 Invents the first plastic 1876 Invents telephone and the first radio transmission 1900 Emission spectrum of a black body 1915 Invention of the first tank 1919 The Enigma machine 1934 Nuclear Fission