Sherman Mills Fairchild (Sherman Mills Fairchild)

Sherman Mills Fairchild

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.

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Born

  • April, 07, 1896

Died

  • March, 03, 1971

Cemetery

  • Glenwood Cemetery
  • USA

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