Joseph Priestly was the first man to discover oxygen! In addition to that he was also a clergyman, teacher, librarian and a scientist. His science experiments made him the person to invent seltzer/soda pop and erasers. You'd think this man's goal had always been to be a chemist or some sort of a scientist, but it wasn't. He was actually going to be a minister, but that didn't work out because his beliefs were different from the church's. In addition to inventing seltzer and discovering erasers, he also discovered that graphite was an electricity conductor. He discovered this because he became very interested in the study of electricity when he met Benjamin Franklin. Thank God he did meet Ben Franklin and become interested in science because who knows if we'd have soda without him!
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