The little Prussian town of Oranienburg, near Berlin, is recalling with pride the ■fact that 100 years ago Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, the son of a clergyman there, devised a process of extracting aniline dye from coal, thus rendering the manufacture of dyes a practicable commercial undertaking. Runge aho discovered the caffeine drug in the coffee beans given to him by the poet Goethe. Other discoveries made by this remarkable pioneer were those of earbelie acid, the stearine candle, and artificial manure.
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Evening Star, Issue 21945, 4 February 1935, Page 11
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