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Mauve: How one man invented a colour that changed the world, Simon Garfield animals or incompetent bosses Navigate office1856. Eighteen year old chemistry student William Perkins experiment has gone horribly wrong. But the deep brown sludge his botched project has produced has an unexpected power: the power to dye everything it touches a brilliant purple. Perkin has discovered mauve, the worlds first synthetic dye, bridging a gap between pure chemistry and industry which will change the world forever. From the fetching ribbons tying back the hair of every fashionable