Episode 32: How the Creation of Blue Dye Became the Signature of the 20th Century

20/05/2022 1h 2min Temporada 1 Episodio 32
Episode 32: How the Creation of Blue Dye Became the Signature of the 20th Century

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The creation of blue has dyed jeans and caused immeasurable grief. Blue is not an easy color to come by in nature. The path to making blue jeans; therefore is an interesting one. In today's episode we reach Levi Strauss, John Hershel, Charles Darwin, the American Revolution, Eli Whitney, the California Gold Rush and ultimately the company whose experiments with Prussian Blue led to murder. 

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