Perkin
Following
Perkin's success, scientists all over Europe conducted further experiments
with aniline, one of the main ingredients of Mauveine. By the end of the
19th century a large number of new synthetic dyes in many brilliant colours
had been discovered and manufactured. Natural dyes were not replaced immediately
because some were still faster than some of the new synthetic ones. Today
over eight thousand different dyes are being manufactured.
By
the latter part of the 19th century procedures for dyeing textiles in
four main forms had been developed: loose fibre, yarn, fabric and garment.
All of these were still very labour intensive but over the next few decades
new machines were developed to speed up and increase the scale of production.
By the 1950s simple controls to monitor and maintain contrast temperatures
for level dyeing had been introduced. The 1960s saw the introduction of
the first computerised dye house controllers. Today computers are used
to control and monitor all aspects of dyeing.
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