He became president of General Aniline & Film Corp. (originally formed by the German Dye Trust), whose real owners’ nationality is still beclouded (TIME, July 28). Franklin Roosevelt’s “old ...

It was the beginning of aniline dyes. After mauveine, the number of synthetic dyes quickly increased in a quest for relatively stable, lightfast and washfast formulations. By the end of the 19 th ...

and it was estimated that the dye industry contributed £3.8 billion to GDP in 2007, while supporting 69,000 jobs. Perkin would have performed a combustion analysis, so he knew that aniline contained ...

At the time he was a student, the German dye industry was thriving, and new aniline dyes were available for tissue staining. He found that different cells held different dyes. He used this ...

William Henry Perkin discovered the first organic dye, mauve or aniline, in 1856. Thousands of dyes have been discovered since then. Synthetic dyes cost less, offer a vast range of colors, and impart ...

The prize is named after Sir William Henry Perkin (1838-1907), most famous for inventing the first aniline dye, mauveine. He was 18 at the time of the discovery and achieved this in the garden shed of ...

This may be the chic-est thing ever to come out of a golf club. Vico Magistretti originally designed his iconic Carimate ...