 Landmark
designation
The American Chemical Society designated
Joseph Priestley's house in Northumberland, Pennsylvania,
a National Historic Chemical Landmark on August 1, 1994.
The plaque commemorating the event reads:
Joseph
Priestley (1733-1804) — Unitarian minister, teacher,
author, natural philosopher, discoverer of oxygen, and
friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson —
supervised the construction of this house and laboratory
from 1794 to 1798, then lived and worked here until his
death in 1804. His library of some 1,600 volumes and his
chemical laboratory, where he first isolated carbon monoxide,
were probably the best in the country at that time. As
suggested by Edgar Fahs Smith in 1920, the Joseph Priestley
House has become "a Mecca for all who would look back
to the beginnings of chemical research" in America.
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| Joseph
Priestley |
The Royal Society of Chemistry and the
American Chemical Society designated Bowood House in Calne,
Wiltshire, United Kingdom, an International Historic Chemical
Landmark on August 7, 2000. The plaque commemorating the
event reads:
Joseph
Priestley (1733-1804) — Unitarian minister, teacher,
author, and natural philosopher — was the Earl of
Shelburne's librarian and tutor to his sons. In this room,
then a working laboratory, Priestley pursued his investigations
of gases. On 1 August 1774 he discovered oxygen. Twenty
years later he emigrated to America where he continued
his research at his home and laboratory in Northumberland,
Pennsylvania. |
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