Norbert Rillieux
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Norbert Rillieux was a Louisiana Creole inventor who was widely considered one of the earliest chemical engineers and noted for his pioneering invention of the multiple-effect evaporator. This inventi
Norbert Rillieux
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Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
Norbert Rillieux
…This invention was an important development in the growth of the sugar industry. Rillieux, a French-speaking Creole, was a cousin of the painter Edgar Degas. Norbert Rillieux was born into a prominent Creole family in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was the son of Vincent Rillieux, a white plantation owner and…
Self-portrait (Degas Saluant), 1863
Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando, (1879) National Gallery, London
Edgar Degas, Self-Portrait, c. 1855. Red chalk on laid paper; 31 x 23.3 cm (12 3/16 x 9 3/16 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington.
A Cotton Office in New Orleans, 1873