Google Doodle Perkin feat
Purple clothing was very much in fashion during Perkin's happy discovery - but was previously too expensive for most people to buy and would also fade quickly.
Google is today celebrating the birth anniversary of British chemist Sir William Henry Perkin, who accidentally discovered the first synthetic dye.
However, the discovery may well be termed accidental and justifies the words of famed scientist Louis Pasteur: "chance favours only the prepared mind". That same year, Sir William Henry Perkin patented the dye and set up an aniline manufacturing plant at Greenford Green near Harrow in London.
Perkin's growing passion for chemistry and talent and devotion to the subject got him admission into the Royal College of Chemistry at a tender age of 15.
Perkin was trying to find a substitute for quinine which was the only feasible medical treatment for malaria in 1856 because the demand for it was exceeding the supply.
Google doodle on Sir William Henry Perkin.
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Perkin was the son of a successful carpenter, Scottish mother, and was the youngest of seven children.
Making use of the cheap and widely accessible coal tar, the factory began producing the world's first synthetically dyed material in 1857.
While experimenting, Perkin discovered that aniline could be partly transformed into a crude mixture which, when extracted with alcohol, produced a substance with an intense purple colour. The dye was originally named tyrian purple but later became commonly known as mauve.
In 1906 The Perkin Medal was established in honour of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of mauveine.
The reach of today's Doodle is limited to the United States, west coast of South America, the UK and a few other European countries, India, Japan and Indonesia.
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