Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World
In 1856 eighteen-year-old English chemist William Perkin accidentally discovered a way to mass-produce color. In a witty, erudite, and entertaining (Esquire) style, Simon Garfield explains how the experimental mishap that produced an odd shade of purple revolutionized fashion, as well as industrial applications of chemistry research. Occasionally honored in certain colleges and chemistry clubs, Perkin until now has been a forgotten man.By bringing Perkin into the open and documenting his life and work, Garfield has done a service to history.-Chicago Tribune [A]n inviting cocktail of Perkin biography, account of the dye industry and where it l…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-32313-9
- EAN: 9780393323139
- Produktnummer: 9697567
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.7 cm x D1.8 cm 227 g
- Gewicht: 227
- Sonstiges: Ab 14 - 18 J.
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Simon Garfield is the author of several acclaimed books, including The End of the Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS, which won the Somerset Maugham Award.
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