THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7

National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA),
260–261
National Geographic Society, 147
National Space Institute, 261
Nautilus, 62
Neuberger, Albert, 266
neutron beams, 214
Newcomen engine, 49, 75
New England Courant, 39, 40
New Orleans, 64
Newton, Isaac, 34
NeXT Corporation, 302
Nicklen, Steve, 269
Niépce, Claude, 59
Niépce, Isidore, 78–79
Niépce, Nicéphore, 59 – 60, 77,
78, 79
Nine Chains to the Moon, 212
Nirenberg, Marshall, 269
nitroglycerin, 109 –110
Nobel, Alfred, 13, 108–113
Nobel, Caroline Andrietta
(Ahlsell), 108–109
Nobel, Emil, 110
Nobel, Immanuel, 108–109
Nobel, Ludvig, 109, 111, 112
Nobel, Robert, 109, 111
Nobel Prize, 10, 13, 14, 46, 108,
112–113, 128, 154, 155, 183,
186, 191, 212, 213, 246, 248,
249, 255, 256, 257, 261, 263,
264, 266, 267, 268, 270, 276,
281, 283
No More Secondhand God, 212
North River Steamboat, 63– 64
Noyce, Robert, 276 –279
nuclear magnetic resonance
(NMR) spectroscopy, 284–285

nucleic acids, base sequences of,

264, 268–270

O

Oberth, Hermann, 195, 258

odometer, 47

Ogden, William, 97

Ohain, Hans Pabst von, 237

oNLine System (NLS), 275

open architecture

networking, 286

open-heart surgery, devices to

enable, 244

Operating Manual for Spaceship

Earth, 212

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 230,

232, 241, 242, 243

Osler, William, 20

Otis, Charles, 100

Otis, Elisha Graves, 99 –100

Otis, Norton, 100

Otto, Nikolaus A., 126 –127

P

Page, Larry, 315– 317

paper, 14, 22–23

parallel motion, 51

Pascal, Blaise, 32

Pauling, Linus, 247

peanuts, 156, 158–159

pendulum, 31, 33

Pennsylvania Gazette, 43

Perutz, Max, 268

pharming, 292, 296

Philosophical Transactions

(of the Royal Society of

England), 36

Phonofilm, 186