November 19, 2008
Date: November 20, 2008 at 12 noon Speaker: Penny Le Couteur Title: The Evolution of Colour: How Dye Molecules Changed the World Description: Did you know that the dye alizarin (Turkey Red) was probably responsible for Alexander the Great’s 320 B.C. defeat of the Persian Army, that a German dye company (Bayer) was the first [...]
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June 24, 2008
A Perfect Red – Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire By Amy Butler Greenfield Harper Collins Publishers, 2005 The desire for a rich red permanent dye and pigment was a major factor in exploring and establishing global trade routes in the 16th and 17th centuries. Early Spanish explorers found that the [...]
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