Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2015
Abstract
Title: Collection, ca. 1957 Description: 0.5 linear ft.
Notes: Biographical sketches, photostat copies of correspondence, and a newspaper clipping relating to the Afro-American engineer Norbert Rillieux (1806-1894), whose invention of an evaporating apparatus revolutionized the international sugar manufacturing industry. Gift of Sidney Kaplan, 1957.
Subjects: Afro-American engineers. lcsh Afro-American inventors. lcsh Biography. lcsh Sugar -- Manufacture and refining.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.96 NUCMC #: DCLV96-A628
Recommended Citation
Staff, MSRC, "RILLIEUX, Norbert" (2015). Manuscript Division Finding Aids. 167.
https://dh.howard.edu/finaid_manu/167
