NORTHUMBERLAND — Not a bad day for 283-year-old scientist Joseph Priestley. He was back at it on Sunday, talking about his and other scientists’ experiments and discoveries. His home was open and ...

Joseph Priestley was the English chemist who discovered oxygen, and you can learn about his work, his family and his connection to the American Revolution at his home in Northumberland, PA. Joseph ...

BLOOMSBURG — If you want to learn more about “Gunpowder Joe” — Joseph Priestley, whose historic house still stands along the Susquehanna River — you’ll want to see the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble’s ...

Next time you open a can of pop, give a thought to the sprightly Englishman Joseph Priestley, the inventor of soda water — and also a political radical, religious heretic and scientific pioneer. In ...

Although he has titled his absorbing book "The Invention of Air," Steven Johnson might have expropriated John O'Hara's "Sermons and Soda Water" for this fast-moving and concise account of the life of ...

IN 2007 and early 2008, when economic skies were blue, I took part in a committee charged by the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) to submit a plan to increase the number of visitors ...

NOT enough attention has been paid, in studying the work of Priestley in chemistry, to his admission that he was “not a practical chemist”. He made that admission again and again—and amplified it—in ...

NORTHUMBERLAND — The Friends of Joseph Priestley House announced it is bringing back its History Camp with an additional program for teens. The camp for first- through sixth-graders is coordinated by ...

THE recent issue of Isis (pp. 81-97) contains an important paper by Mr. W. Cameron Walker on “The Beginnings of the Scientific Career of Joseph Priestley”, disposing of the incorrect views expressed ...