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Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is a 1961 Richard Matheson short story about an airline passenger who alone sees a gremlin sabotaging the plane, famously adapted for The Twilight Zone in 1963.
Nihon Kohden
Nihon Kohden (日本光電) is a Japanese medical electronics manufacturer of patient monitors, defibrillators, ventilators, and diagnostic analyzers, best known for Takuo Aoyagi's invention of pulse oximetry.
Niigata Transys
Niigata Transys Co., Ltd. is a Japanese rolling stock and snow-removal machinery manufacturer headquartered in Niigata Prefecture, established in 2003 and holding the top share in Japanese diesel railcars.
Niira Radia
Niira Radia, also spelled Nira Radia, is an Indian corporate lobbyist who ran Vaishnavi Corporate Communications and was associated with the 2010 Radia tapes recordings.
NIIT
NIIT, or National Institute of Information Technology, is an Indian skills and talent development company founded in 1981 that pioneered commercial information technology training in India.
Niji·Journey
Niji·Journey is an anime-focused text-to-image model family developed by Midjourney with the studio Spellbrush, first released in 2022 and known for clean anime characters and natural hands.
Nijo Castle
Nijo Castle (Nijō-jō) is a flatland castle in Kyoto, Japan, built in 1603 by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, where the shogunate returned power to the Emperor in 1867.
Nikaitchuq Oil and Gas Field
Nikaitchuq is an offshore oil field in shallow Beaufort Sea waters off Alaska's North Slope near Oliktok Point, producing heavy oil since 2011 with reserves of 220 million barrels.
Nike laser
The Nike laser is a krypton fluoride excimer laser at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., opened in 1995 to study direct-drive inertial confinement fusion.
Nike-Cajun
The Nike-Cajun, designated PWN-3, was a two-stage American sounding rocket combining a Nike booster with a Cajun upper stage, flown for upper-atmosphere research from 1956 to 1976.
Nikesh Arora (निकेश अरोड़ा)
Nikesh Arora (निकेश अरोड़ा) is an Indian-born American executive, chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks since 2018 after senior roles at Google and SoftBank.
Nikhil C. Trivedi
Nikhil C. Trivedi is an Indian-born American minerals engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021 for mineral-processing technologies for paper, polymer, and building industries.
Nikhil Koratkar
Nikhil Koratkar is an Indian-born American materials scientist and mechanical engineer who holds a chaired professorship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, known for nanomaterials research and lithium battery work.
Niki (airline)
Niki (Niki Luftfahrt GmbH), also styled Niki or flyNiki, was a leisure airline founded by Niki Lauda in 2003. Based in Vienna, it served Mediterranean destinations until its cessation of operations in 2017.
Nikita Bier
Nikita Bier is an American entrepreneur who built the viral teen apps tbh, sold to Facebook in 2017, and Gas, sold to Discord in 2023.
Nikkō Kaidō
Nikkō Kaidō, officially Nikkō Dōchū, was one of the Five Routes of Edo-period Japan, running 140 km from Nihonbashi in Edo to Nikkō Tōshōgū as the shoguns' pilgrimage road.
Nikko Toshogu
Nikko Toshogu (日光東照宮) is a Shinto shrine in Nikko, Japan, founded in 1617 as the mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu and rebuilt on a grand scale in 1636.
Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus "Bucky" Wirth (1934–2024) was a Swiss computer scientist who designed Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon, won the 1984 Turing Award, and taught at ETH Zurich from 1968 to 1999.
Nikola Corporation
Nikola Corporation, also called Nikola Motor Company, was an American maker of hydrogen and battery electric Class 8 semi-trucks, which peaked at a $30 billion valuation and went bankrupt in 2025.
Nikola Tesla (Никола Тесла)
Nikola Tesla (Никола Тесла), also known as Nicholas Tesla, was a Serbian American inventor and electrical engineer whose patents established the polyphase alternating current system used worldwide.
Nikola Tesla power station
The Nikola Tesla power station (TENT) is a group of lignite-fired power plants near Obrenovac, Serbia, operated by Elektroprivreda Srbije and supplying about half of Serbia's electricity.
Nikolaos A. Peppas
Nikolaos A. Peppas is a Greek-American chemical and biomedical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, known for hydrogels, controlled drug delivery, and the Peppas equation.
Nikolaus A. Adams
Nikolaus A. Adams (born 1963) is a German mechanical engineer and computational fluid dynamicist, professor and chair of aerodynamics and fluid mechanics at the Technical University of Munich since 2004.
Nikolay Zhukovsky (Николай Егорович Жуковский) (scientist)
Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky (Николай Егорович Жуковский, 1847–1921) was a Russian mathematician and engineer called the father of Russian aviation; his 1906 lift theorem underlies wing theory.
Nikon (株式会社ニコン)
Nikon Corporation, formerly Nippon Kogaku, is a Japanese manufacturer of optical and precision instruments founded in Tokyo in 1917, known for cameras, NIKKOR lenses, and semiconductor lithography systems.
Nikon Coolpix
Nikon Coolpix is a series of compact digital cameras made by Nikon, launched in 1997 with the COOLPIX 100 and known for superzoom bridge cameras with extremely long fixed zoom lenses.
Nikon Coolpix P1100
The Nikon Coolpix P1100 is a bridge superzoom digital camera released by Nikon in February 2025 for $1,099.95, succeeding the Coolpix P1000 with a 125x zoom.
Nikon F
The Nikon F is a 35 mm single-lens reflex camera introduced by Nikon in 1959, whose bayonet F-mount remains in use on digital SLRs today; more than 800,000 were made.
Nikon FM
The Nikon FM is a 35 mm mechanical SLR camera made by Nikon from 1977 to 1982, the first built around the AI meter-coupling system.
Nikon FM3A
The Nikon FM3A is a 35mm manual-focus SLR film camera released by Nikon in 2001, with a hybrid shutter that works without a battery in manual mode.