1856. Eighteen-year-old chemistry student William Perkin's
experiment has gone horribly wrong. But the deep brown sludge his
botched project has produced has an unexpected power: the power to
dye everything it touches a brilliant purple. Perkin has discovered
mauve, the world's first synthetic dye, bridging a gap between pure
chemistry and industry which will change the world forever. From
the fetching ribbons tying back the hair of every fashionable head
in London to the laboratories in which scientists developed modern
vaccines against cancer and malaria, Simon Garfield tells the story
of how the colour purple became a sensation.
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