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Norbert Rillieux

New Orleans-born Norbert Rillieux invented and patented the multiple-effect evaporator, a system that greatly advanced the sugar refining process in Louisiana.

Norbert Rillieux

Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection

Norbert Rillieux. Unidentified

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