Priestley isolates oxygen
1774 · Event
Heating mercuric oxide with a burning lens, Priestley captures 'dephlogisticated air' — the gas Lavoisier would rename oxygen.
On these timelines: Science & Technology, Master, England, United Kingdom (combined)
More from Science & Technology
- Isaac Newton (1643)
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- The Space Race (1957)
- Edison's incandescent light bulb (1879)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Invention of the transistor (1947)
- First electronic computer (ENIAC) (1946)
Around 1774
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- US Constitution (1787)