4/12/2012 - Creation of Soda Water

     In the late 18th century a Chemist by the name of Joseph Priestly, an self educated man living in Birmingham at the time, had an everlasting love for science and chemistry, so he decided to pursue science over his current ministerial work.  He was strong on the experimental method and had his scientific love focused on gases and the sources of the gas.  One day when he was at a public brewery he noticed the bubbles coming out of the vat and thought to himself what this gas was, so he decided to see what would happen if he would put a flame near these gases and observed that the flame extinguished after exposure.  So he collected this gas, and figured out a way to make it at home to analyze it, and little did he know that this gas was in fact carbon dioxide, CO2.  In one experiment he bubbled it through water and noticed that it was slightly soluble, and the water turned into an exceedingly pleasant sparkling water, very much like Seltzer water.  This was brought to the attention of the Royal Society and later became known as Soda water