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Show Soda Water, European Discovery Aerated water, popularly known as soda water, such as is served at American fountains, was a European Euro-pean discovery. The great scientist, scien-tist, Priestley, discovered the method meth-od in 1772. Paul of Geneva and Schweppe of London, introduced such water commercially in 1790. Dr. Philip S. Physick, a Philadelphia Philadel-phia doctor, is regarded as the introducer in-troducer of soda water into the United States. In 1807 he and a chemist, Townsend Speakman, made the forerunner of the soda fountain. The first use of fruit syrups syr-ups with aerated water is credited to Eugene Houssel, the owner of a perfumery shop in Philadelphia, early in the Nineteenth century. |