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James
Naismith
The Canadian physical education
instructor who invented basketball in 1891.
John
Napier
The Scottish mathematician who invented
logarithms, the decimal point, and Napier's Bones.
Gerhard
Neumann
Neumann created innovations in jet
aircraft engines.
Alfred
Neustadter
Invented the Rolodex.
Thomas
Newcomen
Invented the atmospheric steam engine.
Sir
Isaac Newton
Invented the reflecting telescope
in 1668.
Julius
Nieuwland
The inventor of the first synthetic
rubber called neoprene.
Paul
Gottlieb Nipkow
Invented a rotating-disk technology
to transmit pictures over wire in 1884. The Nipkow Disk was the very first
electromechanical television scanning system. Nipkow's system was abandoned
early in the history of television for the electronic systems developed
by later inventors.
Alfred
Nobel
Invented dynamite.
Jean
Nollet
Invented the electroscope - a device
for detecting electric charge - in 1748.
Robert
N Noyce
The co-founder of the Intel Corporation
and the inventor-pioneer in semiconductor development. Jack Kilby and Robert
N Noyce co-invented the integrated circuit.
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