Ebook: Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World
Author: Simon Garfield
- Genre: History
- Tags: Perkin William Henry -- Sir -- 1838-1907, Mauve, Dye industry -- Great Britain, Chemists -- England -- Biography, Chemists, Dye industry, England, Great Britain
- Year: 2002
- Publisher: W. W. Norton
- City: Princeton, NJ
- Language: English
- epub
In 1856 eighteen-year-old English chemist William Perkin accidentally discovered a way to mass-produce color. In this [book, the author] explains how the experimental mishap "revolutionized organic chemistry - and fashion" (Newsweek). Mauve not only took the fashion world by storm when Queen Victoria wore it at her daughter's wedding in 1858, but the invention of this new color also sparked interest in industrial Read more...