Chapter ID: CBB000082907

Theory from practice: Portraying the constitution of synthetic dyestuffs in the 1860s (1998)

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Description “This chapter argues that the theories of chemical constitution devised by Hofmann and other chemists of the time were not merely academic constructs, but products of industrial laboratories.” Focuses on the situation in Manchester and the competition between Caro and Wanklyn and Hofmann.


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Book Gaudillière, Jean-Paul; Löwy, Ilana (1998) The invisible industrialist: Manufactures and the production of scientific knowledge. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Travis, Anthony S.
Krätz, Otto Paul
Reinhardt, Carsten
Saltzman, Martin D.
Belt, Henk van den
Diem, Annemarie
Journals
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
British Journal for the History of Science
Chemie, Experiment + Didaktik
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Chemistry and Industry
Publishers
University of Oklahoma
Kluwer
Concepts
Dyes; painting; bleaching
Biographies
Chemical industry
Chemistry
Organic chemistry
Textiles
People
Caro, Heinrich
Hofmann, August Wilhelm von
Levinstein, Ivan
Mercer, John
Graebe, Carl
Lightfoot, John
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Medieval
Places
British Isles
Germany
Europe
France
Institutions
Chemical Society, London
Badische Anilin- und Soda- Fabrik (B.A.S.F.)
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