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Mauve : How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World
ISBN: 9780393323139 | 0393323137
Edition: 00Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 5/17/2002
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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 histo... MORE
| Invention | |
| The Celebrity | p. 3 |
| Not the Land of Science | p. 14 |
| Floating in the Air | p. 23 |
| The Recipe | p. 35 |
| Hindrance and Synthesis | p. 51 |
| Mauve Measles | p. 60 |
| The Terrible Glare | p. 74 |
| Madder | p. 89 |
| Poisoning the Clientele | p. 100 |
| Exploitation | |
| Red Letter Days | ... MORE |
| Self-destruction | p. 145 |
| The New Eventuality | p. 162 |
| Physical Acts | p. 168 |
| Fingerprints | p. 181 |
| Author's Note | p. 197 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 201 |
| Bibliography | p. 203 |
| Index | p. 215 |
| Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved. |
Simon Garfield is the author of The End of the Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS, which won the Somerset Maugham Award.
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