William Henry Perkin Letter to Grand children
Hello, I am you Grandfather William Perkin. I know you must be wondering who I am and why you are receiving this letter. I am your mother's Father. I gave her this letter to give to you in case I died before you were born. I wanted to let you know who I was as a person and what my life was like. To start off I was born on March 12, 1838 in England. I was a very curious kid. I liked to paint and mess around with different things. I once tried to build an engine. My father George, who was a builder and contractor, hoped I would become an architect when I got older, but that all changed when a friend of mine introduced me to the wonderful world of chemistry. He showed me chemical experiments that crystallized substances into definite forms. When I learned about the wonders of chemistry I was attending school at the City of London School. Here I was able to take different lessons on different chemistry topics. Thomas Hall was my teacher and he saw my passion for chemistry. When I was fifteen he told me I was ready to attend the Royal College of Science. This is where I met a German chemist named August
I left school and built the factory Perkins & Sons on the Banks of the Grand Union Canal in Greenford, West London in June 1857. Mauve as they called it was then being used in London dye houses due to purple being the latest fashion trend of the time. These other purple dyes faded quickly, but mauve proved to not to. Many famous people of the time appeared at special events dressed in the color I had discovered. This color wasn't the only color produced from coal tar, and I was forced to continue my studies on the dye. In 1864 I developed a new method in creating this dye, and in 1869 I created a commercial process for producing the colors. I was producing 220 tons of dye per year. I was wealthy enough to be able to retire and return to pure science, that I sold my company Perkin & Sons in 1874. Even though I wanted to return to pure science, I had really been working with it all through the time I was working on the dyes. This is something no one really knew, and I am letting you know now. I created the first synthetic perfume from coal tar, and a cinnamon acid. I preferred to stay out of the spotlight, except when I was presented the Perkin Metal in 1906. The Perkin Metal was designed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the dis
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Approximate Word count = 836
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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