The story of why blueprints were blue is more involved than you think. It involves a chemical process and the Prussian Army. Yeah you heard me right.
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Ever wonder why architectural plans used to be called "blueprints" and why they were actually blue? Josh and Chuck dive into the fascinating history of Prussian blue, a gorgeous color accidentally discovered by an 18th-century alchemist and dye maker sharing a Berlin laboratory. They explore how this beautiful pigment became the backbone of a revolutionary copying process that transformed architecture and engineering, and trace its evolution from cyanotype photography to modern digital printing methods.
Movies Discussed
Batman
"conducted by a guy who had the Batman symbol for a mustache — Referenced in an ad for another podcast about early vacuum experiments conducted by someone with a Batman symbol-shaped mustache."
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