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	George Nissen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Nissen, (Born 1914 in Blairtown, Iowa) is an American gymnast and inventor who developed the modern trampoline and made trampolining a worldwide sport.
		Nissen became a keen gymnast in high school and won three NCAA gymnastics championships while a student at the University of Iowa.
		Nissen set up a branch plant of his company in England in the 1950s but by this time other manufacturers had started to make similar equipment and eventually, although the word trampoline was originally a trade mark, it became a generic word for rebound apparatus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Nissen (420 words)

	Trampoline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nissen was a gymnastics and diving competitor and Griswold was a tumbler on the gymnastics team, both at the University of Iowa, USA.
		They had observed trapeze artists using a tight net to add entertainment value to their performance and experimented by stretching a piece of canvas, in which they had inserted grommets along each side, to an angle iron frame by means of coiled springs.
		George Nissen heard the word on a demonstration tour in Mexico in the late 1930s and decided to use an anglicized form as the trademark for the apparatus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trampoline (966 words)

	West View Trampolining Club - Trampoline History
		Nissen says that first successful rig "was big and strong and heavy." It had a bed made out of canvas that they had bought from a tentmaker, cut into shape, and rimmed with grommets.
		Nissen liked the sound of that word, and when he and his two buddies returned to the United States after about six months, he decided he would Anglicize the spelling and call his bouncing rig a Trampoline, a term he registered as a trademark.
		Nissen also got involved with the movie business but came away disgusted by the calibre of some of the people he was dealing with.
	www.wvtc.co.uk /history19.htm (6776 words)

	Trampoline
		George Nissen heard the word on a demonstration tour in Mexico in the late 1930s and decided to use an anglicised form as the trademark for the apparatus.
		The first purpose built trampoline was built by George Nissen and Larry Griswold around 1935.
		Nissen was a gymnastics coach and Griswold was a tumbler on the gymnastics team, both at the University of Iowa, USA.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/trampoline.html (290 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Born in 1914, Nissen began training in gymnastics as a child, tumbling on his junior high school tumbling team and a local YMCA team when he was in high school.
		Nissen realized that a similar setup for gymnasts would allow them to perform complex moves like that too similar to the moves that divers do, only they would be able to rebound again and again and do more and more tricks.
		Using Nissen’s bouncing machine, they performed in Texas and in Mexico, and it was there that Nissen learned of the Spanish word for diving board: el trampolin.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/nissen.html (636 words)

	George Gleason's Family
		George Curtis Gleason, son of Harvey, was born on September 10, 1896 at Audubon, Iowa.
		George was an active member of the Audubon County Beef Producers Association and for several years belonged to the Audubon Volunteer Fire Department.
		George married on January 30, 1926 at Adel, Iowa to Lois Johnson, daughter of Ray Johnson and Edith Emery.
	home.comcast.net /~hlgruss/gglj.html (660 words)

	George_Nissen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Image:NissenandKangaroo.jpgthumbnailrightGeorge Nissen bounces with a kangaroo as a publicity stunt.
		After he graduated in Business Studies in 1937, Nissen and two friends toured the United States and Mexico performing at fairs and carnival s.
		Nissen set up a branch of his company in England in the 1950s but by this time other manufacturers had started to make similar equipment and eventually, although the word trampoline was originally a trade mark, it has become a generic word for rebound apparatus.
	goc.subdomain.de /George_Nissen (407 words)

	Trampoline history by Fun Spot.
		Trampoline was not actually a competitive event until after its invention by an American, George Nissen, as a portable unit in 1936.
		The trampoline itself, according to circus lore, was first developed by an artist called Du Trampolin who saw the possibility of using the trapeze safety net as a form of propulsion and landing device and experimented with different systems of suspension, eventually reducing the net to a practical size for separate performance.
		In the early 1930s, one George Nissen made a trampoline in his garage and used it to help with his diving and tumbling activities.
	www.funspot.com /trampoline_history.html (1032 words)

	George Nissen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although Nissen and his friends had brought the rig to camp to practice on it themselves, it mesmerized their youthful charges.
		Nissen also got involved with the movie business but came away disgusted by the caliber of some of the people he was dealing with.
		During last summer's event, Nissen was called to the center of the gym and someone turned on a video recorder.
	www.itia-inc.org /TrampEducation/HistoricInformation/Biographies/GeorgeNissen.html (6703 words)

	George Noorigian interview
		George Noorigian: Yeah, and what happened, one section of the plane in the back was all full of oxygen tanks, because we had to be on oxygen over 15,000 feet, and it blew out five or six tanks.
		George Noorigian: We had the one engine was bad, but we had the three engines as far as I know that were still all right.
		George Noorigian: All the pigeons roost on it.
	www.kasselmission.com /interviews/noorigian.htm (6645 words)

	History Of Trampolining: Ministry Of Air Trampoline Club
		Nissen remembered the hours they spent in the basement of the YMCA, threading the long cords of the nets, using large javelin-head needles.
		George used it to help with his diving and tumbling activities.
		George Nissen, the co-creator of the competitive style trampoline, heard the word on a performance tour in Mexico in the late 1930's.
	www.ministryofair.com /Gen-History.htm (1089 words)

	History of trampolining
		The activity spread to Europe in the 1950’s, inspired by visits from George Nissen, and display teams took the activity to all continents in the late 50’s and early 1960’s, when many national federations were formed.
		In 1958 the first “Nissen Cup” was held in Switzerland, under the organisation of Kurt Baechler, another pioneer of the sport, and which still continues today.
		George Nissen financed the first (at that time, unofficial, but later recognized) World Championships in trampolining, organized by Ted Blake, who at that time was the then FIT Vice-President, in the famous London Theatre, the Royal Albert Hall.
	www.brentwoodtc.org /doc/BTC-201.htm (8380 words)

	George Nissen < inventor < Career < People < : news feed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nissen made some other mistakes after he left the manufacturing arena, he acknowledges.
		Nissen thinks he dreamed up this design four or five years ago.
		Nissen has given a lot of thought to the fundamentals of inventing.
	schema-root.org /people/career/inventors/george_nissen (6888 words)

	Shell's Trampolining Pages
		The modern trampoline was invented by George Nissen, USA in 1936 and spread to Europe in the late 1940s.
		George Nissen is now 88 and lives in San Diego.
		When George Nissen heard that gymnastic trampolining would make its Olympic debut in Sydney, he bought tickets to all the events and brought his daughter Dian to Sydney to watch.
	www.trampolinewa.info /tramp-faq.html (765 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One of the athletes was George Nissen, an American physical education professor.
		George Nissen founded the first company to produce trampolines.
		This new activity was passed on to Europe in the fifties with the guidance and inspiration of George Nissen and Kurt Baechler.
	www.athens2004.com /en/TrampolineHistory (389 words)

	USA Table Tennis - USATT Hall of Fame - George Brathwaite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		George was hooked, had found a new pursuit—began playing daily with an old hard-rubber racket he’d picked up, taking delight in acquiring a defense.
		In Mar., George was still a fixture at the Westfield, N.J. tournaments—winning at this one both the Men’s and the Senior’s.
		George himself organized a “Friendship First, Competition Second” series of fun exhibitions that were of course enjoyed by the diplomacy-minded crowd.
	www.usatt.org /organization/halloffame/brathwaite.html (6770 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roger J. Nissen of Carroll, son of Mr.
		George Nissen, entered the Army January 4, 1944.
		Roger Nissen writes from Camp Blanding, Florida that he receives the Monitor every Monday and there is nothing more welcome than the home paper.
	www.davidkusel.com /centennial/aspinwall/366r-nissen.htm (106 words)

	Nissen-Emery Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Nissen Corporation was a gymnastic manufactor out of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
		George Nissen was the inventor of the trampoline.
		From 1966 to 1989 the award nomination, selection and presentation process was managed by the Nissen Company.
	www.usag-mi.org /people/nissen-emery-award.htm (262 words)

	Nissen Family
		Toego or Tycho Nissen was born in Holstein, Germany, in either 1730 or 1732, and came to Salem directly from Europe in 1770.
		Tycho Nissen to sing a verse occasionally during his night-watch." (Perhaps this was to help keep him awake?) By 1784 his health seems to have deteriorated, and he was replaced as night-watchman during cold weather.
		The widow Maria Salome Meurer Nissen married Abraham Hessler in 1796.
	www.fmoran.com /nissen.html (573 words)

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		Among the audience was George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., owner of a firm that tested iron and steel.
		When George Gale Ferris built his first wheel he probably never dreamed of the trend he was starting.
		The prototype apparatus was built by George Nissen, an American circus acrobat and Olympic medallist.
	www.geocities.com /dougchevery/abouthistory.htm (684 words)

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		Nissen, the inventor of the trampoline, was a three-time National Tumbling Champion (1935-37) as a gymnast at the University of Iowa who went onto found Nissen Corporation.
		Nissen Corp is the world’s larges supplier of gymnastics equipment, and Universal Gym Equipment.
		The Tribe, which is currently ranked 13th-nationally, is traveling to compete in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships this weekend (Saturday and Sunday, March 20 and 21st) at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
	www.tribeathletics.com /story.php/2129 (367 words)

	trampoline history? trampoline supplier has the highest quality trampolines!. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A piece of canvas, in which they had inserted grommets along each side, was then attached to the frame by using springs.
		"Since Nissen was still training for tumbling, they decided to move the trampoline to a YMCA camp where he was an instructor.
		There, during his free time, Nissen used it for his tumbling training.
	www.trampoline-supplier.co.uk /trampolinehistory.htm (434 words)

	Trampoline History - Invention of the Trampoline
		Nissen realized that a similar setup for gymnasts would allow them to perform complex moves like that too, only they would be able to rebound again and again and do more and more tricks.
		Nissen holds more than 40 patents related to sports and fitness.
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	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/trampoline.htm (425 words)

	RiverTowns.net: Daily coverage of events. Courtesy of the Hudson Star Observer.
		George invented the trampoline in 1936 and probably should've been handing out medals at this event.
		But, it wasn't me -- it was everyone there who understood that George Nissen had devoted his life to making this an Olympic sport.
		He'd been told in the 1960s, "George, trampolining will never be an Olympic sport, and if it is, it won't be 'til the year 2000." Well, what prophecy that was.
	www.rivertowns.net /daily/hso/c001005 (1707 words)

	FuntekUSA
		In the 1960's, George Nissen developed a game that could be played on the trampoline and named it "Spaceball." His intention was to create a game that was not only fun, but easy to learn and didn't require training or coaching.
		With the introduction of George Nissen’s latest design, now everyone can enjoy hours of Spaceball fun.
		In 1940, George Nissen unveiled the first trampoline for schools and other institutions.
	www.funtekusa.com /spaceball/index.php (401 words)

	Famous Inventors in History - historical inventors and inventions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		George invented his first game at the age of 15, a game called "Banking".
		At 16 years old, George Nissen worked in his parents' garage and built his first jumping device which proved to be an instant hit when he brought it to a camp that he and his friends had worked at.
		At the age of 6 Jacob invented the JD Batball when he had trouble carrying his bat and ball home from his grandmother's house.
	kids.patentcafe.com /inventions/kidinventors.asp (1248 words)

	3. DECIDUOUS FRUIT PRODUCTION IN AUSTRALIA
		However, when paclobutrazol and N are applied together, fruit size may be increased by as much as 39% (George and Nissen, 1992).
		George, A.P., Campbell, J.A. and Nissen, R.J., 1992a.
		George, A.P., Nissen, R.J., and Campbell, J.A., 1996a.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/004/AB985E/ab985e04.htm (3951 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Following the committal services all friends and relatives are invited to return to the church for luncheon and fellowship.
		George Schroeder, Allen Hunter, Orlo Nissen and Richard Stoffers as casketbearers.
		Herbert Roy, son of George and Alvina Ohrt Stribe, was born July 23, 1896 in Washington Township, Carroll County, Iowa.
	elwood.pionet.net /~bkienast/memorial/herbert-stribe.htm (323 words)

	CNN/AllPolitics.com - Election 2000 - The Republican National Convention
		CNN Senior Interactive Correspondent Beth Nissen says the observed, outnumbered nearly 4 to 1, are playing to the observers at GOP convention
		George W. Bush arrives at the Republican Convention amid cheers and applause
		CNN Senior Interactive Correspondent Beth Nissen says acoustic engineers are ensuring speeches will be heard at the GOP convention.
	www.cnn.com /ELECTION/2000/conventions/republican/gop.videos (829 words)

	The State News - Gymnast misses out on Nissen Award - Thursday, April 16, 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The opening of this year’s NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Championships in State College, Pa., began Wednesday evening with a banquet and the presentation of the Nissen Award.
		Named after George Nissen, a figurehead in men’s gymnastics, the Nissen Award is given to one of eight collegiate gymnasts who contribute to their team both academically and athletically.
		Sterk had won a spot as an alternate at this year’s championship meet, despite the fractured fibula he suffered at the regional competition.
	www.statenews.com /editionsspring98/041698/sp_sterk.html (178 words)

	1997 Nissen Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From 1966 through 1989 the award nomination, selection and presentation process was managed by the Nissen Company.
		The George Nissen Award does not only honor the collegiate senior gymnast who has established an outstanding record of achievement during his college career.
		The award presentation is held annually at the College Gymnastics Association banquet at the NCAA Gymnastics Championships.
	www.troester.com /ncaa/nissen.htm (403 words)

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