Caption: Booklet - Addresses from Inauguration of Noyes
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52 And Perkin himself v much afraid tha by entering a technical pursuit fa woul< be prevented from following tin* i arc] work in which lie was so much in ton* ted. He determined, how< thai b would I be drawn away from r irch, and in tl determination and its imital m by otiw rs I think we may e the e jret of much of the success of this industry. In no ofh< industry are so many highly-trained chemists employed and in no other is the worl so closely related to research in the pun science. Twelve years after the discovc y of mauve, Graebe and Liebermann succeeded in preparing alizarin, or turkey red, from the anthracene of coal tar. This dis >very again, was the result of pure scientific work undertaken without reference to its technical importance. The first method f preparation, too, was by a difficult proc which was too expensive to be commercially feasible. As soon as the scientific problem had been solved, however, the qu< Hon \N 9 taken up from the commercial standpoinl and Perkin >on found an e inomi \\ method for the manufacture of the d\ -At that time large quantity of madroot were raise! in llollaml and elsewher r<.r the preparation of alizarin. It w s u found thai the dye could be made < much more cheaply from a n t h r a x and within a Pew years (he artificial ali trin droi the Datura] product Crom the mar \\ iI)( l the l Mitch farmers were compelled to rail other a ricultural pr luct So important is this (lyo Ilia! the value o( th a m o u n t iiianuf hired m 1880 is given 1 1 • 000.000. 1 Ii i stimnted thai il would
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