Ten For Today: Oxygen(e)
Gary Higgins, Jean-Michele Jarre, Sweet, City Streets & Lorrie Lucas, The Halo Benders, Symbiosis, The Dishes, Willy Mason, Catfiish & The Bottlemen, Ludwig A.F.
Today, we celebrate the 1733 birth of Joseph Priestly, the English scientist who, in 1774, discovered “dephlogisticated air,” which would later be more elegantly named “oxygen,” by a French scientist. He was a religious “dissenter,” one who broke away from the Church of England, and a supporter of both the American and French revolutions, which meant at…
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