Carbonated_water In 1767, Joseph Priestley invented carbonated http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonated_water In 1767, Joseph Priestley invented carbonated water when he first discovered a method of infusing water with carbon dioxide when he suspended a bowl of water above a beer vat at a local brewery in Leeds, England. The air blanketing the fermenting beer—called ‘fixed air’—was known to