TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Steven
TI  - The invention of air: an experiment, a journey, a new country, and the amazing force of scientific discovery 
SN  - 9780141044354 (pbk.) :
AV  - QD22 
U1  - 540.92 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin
KW  - Priestley, Joseph,
KW  - Chemists
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Exiles
KW  - United States
KW  - Discoveries in science
KW  - History
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Originally published: New York: Penguin, 2008; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - In 1794, Joseph Priestley - amateur scientist, ordained minister and radical thinker - set sail for America to escape persecution. Steven Johnson tells his incredible story: the discovery of oxygen, the invention of a science, the founding of a church, and, with the great minds of his time, the development of the US itself
ER  -