Aniline Brown Merck
name: label: manufacturer
content: Merck & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Glass jar with paper label that reads “1223-2 / 02. / ANILINE BROWN MERCK / (Bismarck Brown) / Merck & Co. Germany New York.” Aniline brown was one of the earliest azo dyes. In 1863, Carl Alexander von Martius (1838-1920), a chemist and entrepreneur in Berlin, invented an azo dye which he named Bismarck brown Y, after the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck. That same year, George de Laire (1836-1908), a chemist with the Imperial Mint in Paris, obtained a British patent for “Improvements in the Manufacture of Brown Coloring Matters”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ruth M. Heller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0325.267
label: accession number
content: 1999.0325
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0325.267
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Aniline Dye
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 cm x 3.5 cm; 3 1/8 in x 1 3/8 in