A transcript and description of the various proceedings of the International Celebration of the Coal-tar Colour Jubilee taking place at the Royal Institution of Great Britain and various locations in America including New York, Boston, and Washington. The Jubilee celebrated chemist William Henry Perkin (1838-1907), who serendipitously invented the first commercial aniline dye when attempting to synthesize quinine in 1856. Includes nine black and white photographic plates and one foldout. The work is digitized in its entirety.
“Jubilee of the Discovery of Mauve and of the Foundation of the Coal-Tar Colour Industry.” London, England: Perkin Memorial Committee, 1906. TP914 .M45 1906. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/qi96034.
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