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into cubes ready to be packed in boxes and delivered 

 to the buyer. The name of Eugen Langen, of Cologne, 

 the inventor, ought to be immortalized. He was the 

 inventor not only of this great revolution in sugar 

 refining but also of the gas engine. Thus we see that our 

 ideas come not always from our own brains but from 

 those of the Frenchman and the German. It would be 

 possible to describe others which came from the Belgian 

 and the Austrian, but this is enough. To see Langen's 

 beetroot sugar factory at Elsdorf turning out fine cube 

 sugar straight from the beetroot juice was a real treat 

 for anyone who appreciates the pleasure of seeing 

 things well done ; everything clean, everything tidy and 

 handy, no mess on the floors, and a complete chemical 

 control of all the operations, He used to describe any 

 sugar refinery devoid of these virtues as a Schweinerei 

 pigsty. 



