Sherman Mills Fairchild (1896-1971) - Find a Grave Memorial

Industrialist and inventor. Among Fairchild's inventions 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.

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