Great story of invention

[Peregrine]

I thought this was a really neat story, an inventor's decade-long quest to invent colored soap bubbles, which ended up coming up with a whole new type of chemical dye that will make him rich and a lot of kids happy.


http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0a03b5108e097010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html