| Birth: | Apr. 7, 1896 | | Death: | Mar. 28, 1971 | 
Industrialist and inventor. Among Fairchild's inventionas are aerial mapping photography, the flight analyzer camera and an automatic photoengraver. Fairchild also designed the first plane to have a closed a cockpit and a plane that could be loaded by rear-facing doors. Fairchild was born into wealth, his father was an IBM founder who built a $200 million fortune and who became IBM's largest single stockholders and one of New York's sought after bachelors.
Search Amazon for Sherman Mills Fairchild | | | Burial:
Glenwood Cemetery
Oneonta
Otsego County
New York, USA |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Oct 03, 2002
Find A Grave Memorial# 6818698 |
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