Mauve, how one man invented a color that changed the world, Simon Garfield
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Label
Mauve, how one man invented a color that changed the world, Simon Garfield
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index
resource.biographical
individual biography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Mauve
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
45715351
Responsibility statement
Simon Garfield
Sub title
how one man invented a color that changed the world
Summary
The story of how a British chemist William perkin accidentally disocvered an oily sludge that turned silk a light purple. His discovery revolutionized Victorian fashion and sparked a great surge in the industrial applications of chemistry
Creator
Subject
- Mauve
- Chimie + Histoire
- Colorants + Industrie -- Grande-Bretagne
- Mauve (Couleur)
- Perkin, William Henry, Sir, 1838-1907
- Couleurs
- Chemists -- England -- Biography
- Perkin, William Henry, 1838-1907
- Dye industry -- Great Britain
- Chimistes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies
- Colorants + Industrie et commerce
- Perkin
- Chimistes -- Angleterre -- Biographies
Content
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance2
Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Subject13
- Mauve
- Chimie + Histoire
- Colorants + Industrie -- Grande-Bretagne
- Mauve (Couleur)
- Perkin, William Henry, Sir, 1838-1907
- Couleurs
- Chemists -- England -- Biography
- Perkin, William Henry, 1838-1907
- Dye industry -- Great Britain
- Chimistes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies
- Colorants + Industrie et commerce
- Perkin
- Chimistes -- Angleterre -- Biographies
- Content1
- Mapped to1