Oxygen (Scheele–Priestley)

Industrial · Materials · 1773

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:

Related Inventions

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