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Magenta. How one man invented a color that changed the world

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Magenta. How one man invented a color that changed the world
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This is the story of William Perkin, who accidentally invented the color purple. And changed the world around him forever. Before 1856, dyes were exclusively natural - they were derived from insects, mollusks, roots and leaves, and artificial coloring was painstaking and expensive. But in 1856, that all changed. An English chemist, working on a cure for malaria in his home laboratory, accidentally discovered a way to mass-produce dyes in factories. This experiment, or even mistake, revolutionized fashion, chemistry, and industry. This book is an amazing story of how sometimes even the smallest thing can change and have such a lasting and important impact.
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