edgepedia

Technology and the built world

61,984 articles

Nicu Sebe

Nicu Sebe (Niculae Sebe) is a computer scientist in computer vision and machine learning, a full professor at the University of Trento and head of AI at Humans.ai.

Nidaros Cathedral

Nidaros Cathedral (Nidarosdomen), also known as Trondheim Cathedral, is a medieval Gothic cathedral in Trondheim, Norway, built over the tomb of St. Olav, where Norwegian monarchs are consecrated.

Niederaussem power station

Niederaussem power station (Kraftwerk Niederaußem) is a lignite-fired power plant in Bergheim, Germany, owned by RWE since 1963, with unit K setting a 43-percent efficiency record.

Niello

Niello is a black metallic inlay of silver, copper, and lead sulfides fused into engraved silver, gold, or bronze, used since Mycenaean times for decoration.

Niels Hansen (materials scientist)

Niels Erik Ottesen Hansen (1933–2021) was a Danish materials scientist at Risø National Laboratory known for work on strengthening polycrystalline metals and dislocation mechanisms of plastic flow.

NIEM

NIEM, the National Information Exchange Model, is an open data vocabulary for machine-to-machine information exchange, launched in 2005 by US agencies and now holding over 20,000 harmonized data elements.

Nieuport

Nieuport (Société Anonyme des Établissements Nieuport), later Nieuport-Astra, was a French aircraft manufacturer founded in 1909, best known for its World War I sesquiplane fighters.

Nieuwe Waterweg

The Nieuwe Waterweg is the artificial mouth of the Rhine and Meuse rivers in South Holland, connecting the Port of Rotterdam to the North Sea since 1872.

NiFeOx oxygen evolution catalyst

NiFeOx is a low-cost nickel-iron oxide or oxyhydroxide electrocatalyst that accelerates the oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline water electrolysis, the leading earth-abundant alternative to IrO2 and RuO2 for hydrogen production.

Nigahi Coal Mine

The Nigahi Coal Mine, formally the Nigahi Opencast Project, is a large opencast coal mine in Singrauli district, Madhya Pradesh, India, operated by Northern Coalfields Limited.

Nigel Peter Brandon

Nigel Peter Brandon is a British electrochemical engineer, Professor and Dean of Engineering at Imperial College London, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2022 for solid oxide fuel cells.

Niger Delta Power Holding

Niger Delta Power Holding Company is a Nigerian power company owned by the federal, state, and local governments, incorporated in 2005 to build the National Integrated Power Project.

Nigeria Airways Flight 2120

Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 was a Hajj charter flight operated by Nationair that crashed shortly after takeoff from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in July 1991, killing all 261 people on board.

Nigeria Data Protection Act

The Nigeria Data Protection Act is a 2023 Nigerian statute governing personal data processing, signed by President Bola Tinubu and enforced by the Nigeria Data Protection Commission.

Nigeria LNG

Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) is a Nigerian liquefied natural gas company incorporated in 1989, owned by NNPC, Shell, TotalEnergies, and Eni, whose Bonny Island plant supplies about 7% of world LNG.

Nigeria LNG Terminal

The Nigeria LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas export complex on Bonny Island in Rivers State, Nigeria, operated by Nigeria LNG Limited with six liquefaction trains producing 22 million tonnes annually since 1999.

Nigerian Breweries

Nigerian Breweries is a Nigerian brewing company founded in Lagos in 1946 by UAC and Heineken, best known for Star Lager, its first beer, launched in 1949.

Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) is Nigeria's statutory civil aviation regulator, created by Decree 49 of 1999 and headquartered at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.

Nigerian Communications Commission

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is the independent regulator of Nigeria's communications sector, established in 1992 and operating under the Nigerian Communications Act 2003, licensing operators and managing spectrum.

Nigerian Defence Academy

The Nigerian Defence Academy, formerly the Nigerian Military Training College, is the Kaduna institution that trains officer cadets of the Nigerian Armed Forces and has awarded degrees since 1985.

Nigerian Gas Company

The Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nigeria's NNPC, operating since 1988 and building the Escravos–Lagos Pipeline that carries gas for power and industry.

Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, known as NNPC Limited, is Nigeria's fully state-owned national oil company, the commercial successor to the old NNPC corporation since 2022.

Nigerian power sector privatization

Nigerian power sector privatization was the 2010–2013 sale of the state-owned PHCN's generation and distribution companies to private investors, described as Sub-Saharan Africa's most ambitious energy privatization.

Night fighter

A night fighter, also known as an all-weather fighter, is a military aircraft equipped to locate and destroy enemy aircraft at night using airborne interception radar.

Night School Studio

Night School Studio was an American independent video game developer in Glendale, California, founded in 2014, best known for Oxenfree, and acquired by Netflix in 2021 before closing in 2026.

Night soil

Night soil is human excreta collected from privies and dry toilets, historically valued as fertilizer, with an organized urban collection trade dating back to Song dynasty China.

Night Witches

The Night Witches, or Nachthexen, were the German nickname for the all-female Soviet 588th Night Bomber Regiment, which flew harassment bombing missions on the Eastern Front from 1942.

NightCafe

NightCafe, also called NightCafe Creator, is a web-based AI art platform founded by Angus Russell in Sydney in November 2019, generating images from prompts using multiple AI models.

Nightfall (missile)

Nightfall, or Project Nightfall, is a British program announced in 2026 to rapidly develop a tactical ballistic missile for Ukraine, with over 500 km range.

Nightlight

A nightlight is a small, low-intensity light kept on during the night to comfort children afraid of the dark and to light stairs, hallways, and routes to the bathroom.