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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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  Norbert Rillieux
Robert Norbert Rillieux (March 18, 1806-October 8, 1894), an African-American inventor and engineer, was born the son of a wealthy, white New Orleans, Louisiana plantation owner and a former slave.
At Norbert's birth, his father had the choice of declaring him free or, as was the custom in many such instances, a slave.
Norbert Rillieux is buried in Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
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 Norbert Rillieux
Norbert Rillieux was born on March 17, 1806 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Norbert was born a free man, although his mother was a slave.
As a child Norbert was educated in the Catholic school system in New Orleans but was sent to Paris, France for advanced schooling.
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 Norbert Rillieux March 18 Paris beet glue External links quadroon Norbert Rillieux, "Free Man of Color" New Orleans, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Norbert Rillieux is buried in P? Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
Norbert Rillieux - Born in New Orleans of a slave mother and French planter/inventor, Norbert Rillieux was...
Norbert Rillieux was revolutionary in the sugar industry by inventing a refining process that reduced the time, cost, and safety risk involved in producing sugar from cane and beets.
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 Norbert Jokl Jew Italy Austria summa cum laude Slavic Bibliography Privatdozent Photo and autograph May 6 Anschluss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Norbert Jokl (February 25, 1877 — probably May 1942) was an Austrian albanologist of Jewish descent who has been called the father of albanology.
On April 29, 1982 the Senate of the University of Vienna decided to inscribe Norbert Jokl’s name to the board of honour of the University.
Norbert Jokl Norbert Provencher Norbert Rillieux Norbert Weiner Norbert Wiener Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility Norbert Wiener Prize Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics...
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 Norbert Rillieux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Robert Norbert Rillieux (March 18,1806-October 8, 1894), inventor and engineer, is most noted for inventing the multiple-effect evaporator, an energy-efficient means of evaporating water.
It is unknown whether his freedom was inherited, as would be the case if his mother had been freed prior to his birth, or specifically granted by his father.
As a free Creole of Color, Norbert was able to access education and privileges not available to lower-status fls or slaves.
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 Making It Happen: Masters of Invention
Actor Glynn Turman introduces fl men and women whose inventions have contributed to society from the time of slavery to today.
Here are Benjamin Banneker, the multi-talented inventor, author and philosopher of the 1700’s, and Norbert Rilleaux, inventor of a sugar refining process still used today, a man so constrained by race laws that he left the U.S. forever.
The program also recognizes Dr. George Washington Carver, known as the “Savior of the South,” Garrett Morgan, inventor of the traffic signal, Dr. Patricia Bath, inventor of the laserphaco probe and a modern spokeswoman for African-American achievement, and many more.
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 Industry And Trade - Sugar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The most important improvement in turning the juice into sugar was made when it was discovered that the hot vapor rising from a vessel of boiling cane-juice could be used to evaporate the water from a second receptacle.
The idea was put into practice as early as 183o, but the real credit of the invention belongs to Norbert Rilleaux, of Louisiana.
After much expense and labor had been undergone in working out the details of the invention, Rilleaux's apparatus was put into operation in 1845.
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 Norbert Rillieux : Norbert Rilleaux
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 No. 1148: 1846
By now, riverboats, railways, and canals were moving raw materials to new manufacturing centers.
The son of a former slave Norbert Rillieux patented the multistage evaporator.
And we were just learning how to manufacture with interchangeable parts -- all in 1846.
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Norbert Rillieux : Norbert Rilleaux
Norbert Rillieux : Norbert Rilleaux
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It uses material from the wikipedia article Norbert Rillieux : Norbert Rilleaux.
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