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French Creoles | Norbert Rillieux |
 | | One of their sons, Norbert Rillieux, became a leading chemical engineer of his time, whose inventions revolutionized the sugar industry throughout the world. |
 | | By 1830, at the age of twenty-four, the precocious Norbert was an instructor in applied mechanics at the Ecole Centrale in Paris, publishing a series of highly regarded papers on steam engines and steam power. |
 | | Traditionally, sugar cane juice was reduced by a primitive and wasteful procedure called "Jamaica Train," which required the tedious and backbreaking toil of many slaves, who, armed with long ladles, skimmed the boiling juice from one open, steaming kettle to the next. |
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