This day marks the birth, in 1733, of Joseph Priestley, the man who discovered oxygen (prior to this, people presumably went about gasping like fish out of water).
Joseph Priestly – equipped with the quintessential nose for oxygen-discovery.
Oxygen is widely used in the ageing of reproduction furniture etc.
Jack Plane
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Several hundred years left out in this mysterious oxygen, and the reproduction certainly looks older!
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