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Mauve

Name: Mauve
Author: Simon Garfield

by Simon Garfield

Biography & MemoirHistorical FictionScience & Nature

2000

Explains how English chemist William Perkin accidentally discovered a way to mass-produce color in a factory in 1856, and discusses how his discovery of the color mauve changed the fashion industry.

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