IN EARLY AMERICA, PAINT WAS EXPENSIVE, PERISHABLE, AND TEMPERAMENTAL, AND YOU HAD TO MAKE IT YOURSELF. HENRY SHERWIN TURNED IT INTO THE DURABLE MANUFACTURED COMMODITY IT IS TODAY.
He never trained as a chemist, yet he became one of America’s greatest, and his crowning achievement brought the world huge benefits and an environmental disaster
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