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  • Mauveine Synthesis: Industrial Espionage in Victorian Chemistry

    Coal, Tar, and the Stolen Secret of Synthetic Purple in Modern British Markets, 1856–1870

    by Thomas B. Smith ...
    In 1856, an eighteen-year-old student accidentally synthesized a vivid purple sludge from coal tar while trying to cure malaria. William Perkin's serendipitous creation of mauveine shattered a biological monopoly that had existed for millennia, replacing the exorbitant cost of crushing thousands of sea snails with the cheap byproduct of urban gas lighting. Almost overnight, the global textile ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD