HECOL268 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: William Henry Perkin, Ebenezer Butterick, The Great Exhibition
13 Jul 2018
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The great exhibition 1851 expansion of looking at things birth of mass tourism things on display are commercially accepted contents reinvented as the museum of arts and manufacturers, later the victoria and albert museum. Sir william henry perkin discovered a way to synthesize coal tar to create new colourfast dyes for brilliant and relatively cheap colours mauveine, then fuchsine, and then induline highly toxic impact of aniline dyes the sewing machine. 1846, mass production in 1850s demand for fabric that is tailored is greater, so a machine to speed up the process was needed lock stitch. Commercial graded paper patterns printed to basic speci cations invented by ebenezer butterick in 1863. Electric iron originally made of iron, heated over a stove with hot coals in it with invention of electricity - have electric irons. Friedrich engels - son of german textile factory owner.
