Born:
1733

Wrote:
"Observa-tion on Civil Liberty"
"Nature & justice of the war with America"

Priestly was a prodigious scientist who also discovered laughing gas, was the first person to carbonate water and did much of the early work on electricity.

Joesph Priestly

Died:
1804

Britannia Biographies. (1999).

The discovery of oxygen.(2000).