Norbert Rillieux collection, ca. 1957.

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Norbert Rillieux collection, ca. 1957.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70941277

Biographical sketches, photostat copies of correspondence, and a newspaper clipping relating to the African American engineer Norbert Rillieux (1806-1894), whose invention of an evaporating apparatus revolutionized the international sugar manufacturing industry.

.5 linear ft.

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

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Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

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Rillieux, Norbert, 1806-1894

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1806 March 17 Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the natural son of Vincent Rillieux and Constance Vivant 1830 Sent to Paris, France to be educated. Published some technical studies that ranked him as an engineer of highest ability. 1834 Invented the Multiple Evaporator and its application into the s...