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Sherman Mills Fairchild (April 7, 1896 – March 28, 1971) was an American businessman and investor who founded over 70 companies, including Fairchild Aviation, Fairchild Industries, and Fairchild Camera and Instrument.
Oct 20, 2017 · Fairchild Aviation’s visionary founder valued innovation above all else. Sherman Fairchild seemed born to tinker with mechanical devices. When his parents gave him a camera for his 9th birthday, he didn’t take pictures with it; he took it apart to see how it worked.
The Sherman Fairchild Foundation, founded in 1955, is a charitable foundation of Sherman Fairchild, founder and chairman of the Fairchild Corporations. Sherman Mills Fairchild formed two charitable foundations, the Fairchild Foundation and the Sherman Fairchild Foundation during his lifetime.
Sherman Mills Fairchild was an American businessman and inventor in the middle of the 20th century. His entire business holdings are not fully known, but a former Fairchild employee, Theron Rinehart, compiled an incomplete list of companies that Fairchild owned.
Dec 20, 2016 · With funding from East Coast industrialist Sherman Fairchild of Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., the founding group developed an improved silicon transistor that found immediate application in aerospace and military defense systems.
Mar 29, 1971 · Sherman Mills Fairchild, a restless inventor with the imag ination and personal wealth to develop major industries from his ideas, died yesterday in Roosevelt Hospital after a long illness.
Sherman Mills Fairchild’s outstanding contributions to aviation began during World War I when he developed an improved aerial camera with a between-the-lens shutter, forming the Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation in 1920. It later became the standard aerial camera of the U.S. military services.
