Caption: Booklet - Addresses from Inauguration of Noyes
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haw eosi $28,000,000 to manufacture the same amount of the dye Prom madder rool This mean thai the world saves $20,000, 000 a \ tr In the manufacture of this single d\ , an amount that would pay tor the maintenan oJ i good number of chemical tboratories. The development of this manufacture was SO r a p i d thai by 1ST:! I V r k i n a n d his brother found that ii would ho necessary to double or treble their factory to supply the d e m a n d . five I V r k i n wax Jhen o n l y ) and h i s love o f ihirlyresearch y e a r s Of a had survived his seventeen years of experias a manufact arer. Partly Tor this reason, partly because he did not wish to assume (he responsihil ily of I he lai er factory, he sold the works and after that tim< he devoted himself lo scientific research, with distinguished success. The jubilee* of the discovery of mauve and ihe founding of the coal-tar industry was justly celebrated last \ a r as o n e o f Ihe real e v e n t s o f the century, hut, Perkin 's scientific achievements and Ihe way in which he slood for h h i d e a l s i n research a r e , 1 t h i n k , o f even a t e r v a l u e to Ihe w o r l d . The manufacture of mauve was quickly ii«r, iful and after the scientific discovery of the structure of alizarin, commercial production soon followed. With indigo, ,1,,. ( |l;l.; been somewhat different The ntifio problem was in itself more difficult ,,.d the course of events has illustrated wiii> ipecial clearness ihe difference , a the dentiflc and ihe technioal ()( olution of the same problem. Ba< r ,, 1M |ll:; work no indiffo in L865 During | , following he prepared a num. lh ,,
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