Oxygen (Scheele–Priestley)
TL;DR
Oxygen (Scheele–Priestley) - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative
independently (re)discovered by Scheele and Priestley. Scheele discovered it earlier but Priestley often gets credit due to having published first
What Had To Exist First
Preceding Inventions
Required Knowledge
- Periodic table elements
What This Enabled
Inventions that became possible because of Oxygen (Scheele–Priestley):
Independent Emergence
Evidence of inevitability—this invention emerged independently in multiple locations:
Great Britain
Parallel development
Biological Patterns
Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread: