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 ...

To color these pieces of silk with aniline blue dye, Gracile Roxas had to do her homework. Roxas, a textile conservator who ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...