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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1943, Page 4

We owe soda water, which Lord Woolton says we must learn to do without for a time, to one of the greatest of English chemists, for the chances are that no one would have been more surprised than Priestley could he have foreseen what would grow from his experiment in 1772 in making an aerated vzater resembling the natural mineral waters of this and other countries. It was in 1790 that Paul began in Geneva to manufacture that aerated water on a large scale, and he was followed in London by Schweppe. Then in 1807 a Philadelphian doctor named Physick conceived the happy idea of getting Speakman, a chemist from the same city, to manufacture it for the use of his patients. Speakman went one better and flavoured it with fruit juices, and from that sprang the huge sodafountain industry in America. —“Manchester Guardian.”