Project on the International Synthetic Dye Industry

Organized by Johann Peter Murmann

The project aims to study the evolution of the first science based industries from 1857 to 2000.

It its first phase, the project focuses on the period from 1857 to the first World War. Ernst Homburg and Johann Peter Murmann collected a database on all firms and plants that existed before War War I.

Over the next couple of years, we will collect data on all firms that operated between 1914 to 2000.

For picture on the dye industry click here.

To date, the following major publications have appeared or are in preparation.