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Nachos [videos]

Nachos is a Mexican dish from northern Mexico that consists of heated tortilla chips or totopos covered with melted cheese, often served as a snack or appetizer. More elaborate versions of the dish add other ingredients, and may be substantial enough to serve as a main …

Nachos with tortilla chips, melted cheese, olives, jalapeño peppers, sour cream, and salsa

Nachos with cheese

Momofuku Ando [videos]

Momofuku Ando, ORS, was a Taiwanese-Japanese inventor and businessman born in Imperial Japanese Taiwan who founded Nissin Food Products Co. Ltd.. He is known as the inventor of instant noodles and the creator of the …

Silver statue of Momofuku Ando

"MOMOFUKU Noodle", by NISSIN

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Image: Cup Noodles

John Logie Baird [videos]

John Logie Baird FRSE was a Scottish engineer, innovator, one of the inventors of the mechanical television, demonstrating the first working television system on 26 January 1926, and inventor of both the first publicly demonstrated colour television system, and the …

Baird in 1917

John Logie Baird with his television apparatus, circa 1925

An early experimental television broadcast

The first known photograph of a moving image produced by Baird's "televisor", as reported in The Times, 28 January 1926 (The subject is Baird's business partner Oliver Hutchinson.)

Rostislav Alexeyev [videos]

Rostislav Evgenievich Alexeyev was a Russian Soviet shipbuilder known for his pioneering work on hydrofoil ships and ground effect vehicles. Alexeyev was an accomplished designer of hydrofoil ships, such as the …

A-90 Orlyonok ("Eaglet") in Moscow.

Image: Rostislav Alexeyev

Image: Могила конструктора Р.Е. Алексеева

Leonid Andrussow [videos]

Leonid Andrussow was a German chemical engineer. He developed the process for the production of hydrogen cyanide based on the oxidation of ammonia and methane, which is named after him Andrussow oxidation. — Biography — Leonid Andrussow was …

Leonid Andrussow in 1933

Leonid Andrussow in 1977

Image: 1931.04.25 Leonid Andrussow Signature

Nikolai Amosov [videos]

Nikolai Mikhailovich Amosov, Doctor of Science, Professor was a Soviet and Ukrainian doctor of Russian origin, heart surgeon, inventor, best-selling author, and exercise enthusiast, known for his …

Nikolai Amosov, circa 1984

Stamp of Ukraine, 2013

Oszkár Asboth [videos]

Asbóth Oszkár, also rendered as Oskar Asboth, was a Hungarian aviation engineer often credited with the invention of the helicopter. His machine used stacked counterrotating propellers; Asbóth never solved the problem of in-flight stability …

Oszkár von Asboth

The AH-4 helicopter in flight

Georgy Babakin [videos]

Georgy Nikolayevich Babakin was a Soviet engineer working in the space program. He was Chief Designer at the Lavochkin Design Bureau from 1965 until his death. — Babakin's early career was spent in radio engineering, starting …

Babakin on a 2014 Russian stamp

Babakin Medal issued by the Federation of Cosmonautics of Russia

Frederick Walker Baldwin [videos]

Frederick Walker Baldwin, also known as Casey Baldwin, paternal grandson of Canadian reform leader Robert Baldwin, was a hydrofoil and aviation pioneer and partner of the famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell. He was manager of Graham Bell Laboratories from …

"Casey" Baldwin at Ridley College, circa 1900

Aerial Experiment Association. Casey (second from right), Bell (centre), McCurdy, Curtis, and Selfridge

Béla Barényi [videos]

Béla Barényi was an Austro-Hungarian engineer, of Hungarian and Austrian heritage, from his father's and mother's side, respectively. He is regarded as the father of passive safety in automobiles. He was born in Hirtenberg …

Béla Barényi

Barényi's birth house, the villa of the Austrian industrial magnates of the Keller family into which Barényi was born

Ernest Beaux [videos]

Ernest Beaux was a Russian-born French perfumer who is best known for creating Chanel No. 5, which is perhaps the world's most famous perfume. — Family background — Born in Moscow, Ernest Beaux was the son of Edouard Hyppolite Beaux and Augustine …

Ernest Beaux (1881–1961)

Chanel No. 5

Charles Best (medical scientist) [videos]

Charles Herbert Best was a American-Canadian medical scientist and one of the co-discoverers of insulin. — Biography — Born in West Pembroke, Maine on February 27, 1899 to Luella Fisher and Herbert Huestis Best, Canadian born physician from Nova Scotia. Best …

The gravestone of Best (section 29) in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery

Image: C. H. Best ca. 1924

Vitaly Abalakov [videos]

Vitaly Mikhaylovich Abalakov was a Soviet chemical engineer, mountaineer and inventor. — Brother of Yevgeniy Abalakov, another famous alpinist, he made the first Soviet ascent of …

Image: Abalakovs

Vsevolod Abramovich [videos]

Vsevolod Mikhaylovich Abramovich was a pioneering aviator. — Biography — Abramovich was born on August 11, 1890 in Odessa, a grandson of the Yiddish writer Mendele Mocher Sforim. He studied at the Charlottenburg technical …

Abramovich with Eugenia Mikhailovna Shakhovskaya in 1913

Nikolay Mikhaylovich Afanasyev [videos]

Nikolay Mikhailovich Afanasyev was a Russian firearms designer. — Biography — Nicolai Michaelovitch Afanasiev was born in Russia on 14 November 1916 in St. Petersburg. In …

Image: A portrait of Nikolay Mikhaylovich Afanasyev

Herman Affel [videos]

Herman Andrew Affel was an American electrical engineer who invented the modern coaxial cable. — Biography — He was born on August 4, 1893. He attended MIT. He later married Bertha May Plummer. — From MIT he went to work at Bell Laboratories. Among other projects …

From left to right are: Lloyd Espenschied and Herman Affel circa 1950-1960

Igor Afrikantov [videos]

Igor Ivanovich Afrikantov was a Russian designer and manager of building nuclear reactors and components for the Russian nuclear industry, civil fleet, and navy. — Life and career — Igor Ivanovich Afrikantov was born in Pushkarka, a village in the Arzamas District of Gorky Oblast …

Image: Igor Afrikantov

Ion I. Agârbiceanu [videos]

Ion I. Agârbiceanu was a Romanian physicist born in Bucium, Alba County in Transylvania. He was the son of the popular writer and devout Catholic Ion Agârbiceanu and his wife Maria.Agârbiceanu invented the gas laser in 1962, the first major improvement on laser …

Ion I. Agârbiceanu on a 2016 stamp of Romania

Artem Alikhanian [videos]

Artem Isahaki Alikhanian was a Soviet Armenian physicist, one of the founders and first director of the Yerevan Physics Institute, a correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the …

Artem Alikhanyan's Plaque on Baghramyan Avenue, Yerevan

Semen Altshuler [videos]

Semen Alexandrovich Altshuler was a Soviet physicist known for his work in resonance spectroscopy and in particular for theoretical prediction of acoustic paramagnetic …

Image: Altschuler scientist

Nils Alwall [videos]

Nils Alwall, a Swedish professor, was a pioneer in hemodialysis and the inventor of one of the first practical dialysis machines. Alwall pioneered the technique of ultrafiltration and introduced the principle of hemofiltration. Alwall is referred to as the "father of …

Dialysis machine for rabbits, Nils Alwall, 1944

Ana Aslan [videos]

Ana Aslan was a Romanian biologist and physician who discovered the anti-aging effects of procaine, based on the drugs Gerovital H3 and Aslavital, which she developed. She is considered to be a pioneer of gerontology and …

Ana Aslan in 1970

Jabbar Baghtcheban [videos]

Mirza Jabbar Asgarzadeh famously known as Jabbar Baghtcheban was an Iranian inventor of Iranian Azerbaijani ethnicity. He is well known as someone who established the first Iranian kindergarten and the first deaf school in Tabriz. He was also …

Image: Jabbar Baghtcheban

Leslie Ballamy [videos]

Leslie Mark Ballamy was a British inventor and automotive engineer who had a major impact on the British motorsport scene both before the Second World War and in the post-war period. His business L.M.B. Components Ltd was located in Guildford, Surrey. — History …

Ballamy front swing axle conversion

Vladimir Baranov-Rossine [videos]

Wladimir Davidovich Baranoff-Rossine was a Ukrainian, Russian and French painter of Jewish origin, avant-garde artist, and inventor. — Biography — Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine was born in Kherson, Russian Empire (present day …

Self-Portrait, oil on canvas, 75 x 50 cm. Private collection, Paris.

Ion Barbu [videos]

Ion Barbu was a Romanian mathematician and poet. — Early life — Born in Câmpulung-Muscel, Argeş County, he was the son of Constantin Barbilian and Smaranda, born Şoiculescu. He attended the Ion …

Ion Barbu

Ernie Baron [videos]

Ernesto J. "Ernie" Barron was a Filipino broadcaster and inventor. He spent more than 40 years in the field of broadcasting. He was best known as the weatherman in the ABS-CBN news program TV Patrol. He was also known as The Walking Encyclopedia. — Later career …

Image: Ernie baron rmchs 1980s

Ernst Barthel [videos]

Ernst Philipp Barthel (17 October 1890 in Schiltigheim – 16 February 1953 in Oberkirch was an Alsatian philosopher, mathematician and inventor. In the 1920s and 1930s he taught as a private lecturer of philosophy at the University of Cologne. From 1924 on Barthel edited the magazine Antäus …

Ernst Barthel, photographed in 1931 by E. Gropp in Cologne, Scan from the book "Einführung in die Polargeometrie" (1932)

Robert Ludvigovich Bartini [videos]

Robert Ludvigovich Bartini was an Italian-born Soviet aircraft designer and scientist, involved in the development of numerous successful and experimental aircraft projects. A pioneer of amphibious aircraft and ground effect …

Partial remnants of the VVA-14 at the Central Air Force Museum.

Zlata Bartl [videos]

Zlata Bartl was a Croatian scientist and is the creator of Vegeta.She was born in Dolac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia and died in Koprivnica, Croatia. — Bartl finished school in Sarajevo and went to Zagreb to study natural …

Zlata Bartl

Albert Gillis von Baumhauer [videos]

Albert Gillis von Baumhauer was a Dutch aviation pioneer notable for his design of the first Dutch helicopter and the related inventions, in particular the cyclic and collective control, and a single rotor design. — Early years …

Image: Baumhauer Helicopter NIMH (19159627488)

Benjamin deForest Bayly [videos]

Benjamin deForest "Pat" Bayly was a Canadian electrical engineer and a professor at the University of Toronto. During World War II he invented a cypher machine called the Rockex and handled communications at the secret intelligence base Camp X. He later ran an engineering …

Rockex equipment invented by Benjamin deForest Bayly

L. E. Baynes [videos]

Leslie Everett Baynes, AFRAeS was an English aeronautical engineer. — Early life — Born at Barnes, Surrey, on 23 March 1902 the son of James and Florence Baynes. Baynes was educated at Gresham's School, Norfolk, leaving school at the age of sixteen to join an …

At Heston Airport 3 October 1935; L. E. Baynes on left, Sir John Carden in centre, Stephen Appleby on right

Allan Beckett [videos]

Allan Harry Beckett MBE was a civil engineer whose design for the'Whale' floating roadway was crucial to the success of the Mulberry harbour that was used in the Normandy Landings. Starting …

Image: Allan Harry Beckett Small

Alexander Bereznyak [videos]

Alexander Yakovlevich Bereznyak ) was a Soviet aircraft and missile designer. He was the Chief Designer of MKB "Raduga", from March 1957. — He was born on 29 December 1912 in Boyarkino, Ozerski District, Moscow Region. Alexander Bereznyak was a …

Image: Dubna School 1 Alexander Bereznyak 2

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