Birmingham, England/birmingham112
Previous | Home | NextAlthough Priestley continued to conduct research in Birmingham, the greater part of his discoveries had been made by the time he moved to Birmingham. Most of his activity was involved in "rear-guard" actions of defending the theory of phlogiston against Lavoisier and his adherents. Lavoisier with his "new chemistry" was proposing that water was a compound formed by the reaction of hydrogen and oxygen; Priestley maintained that oxygen was "dephlogisticated" air. Notice the blue plaque (see next photo).
