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Fairchild Semiconductor was a producer of American electronics and computer circuitry. William Shockley was the founder of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. Company engaged in research for cameras and satellites and worked closely with the United States military and Department of Defense.

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.

Sherman M. Fairchild, a prolific inventor for whom the home is named, commissioned architects George Nelson, a member of the Architecture Committee of the Museum of Modern Art, and William Hamby in 1941 to break the mold of architectural convention to create a home as innovative as he was.

Sherman Mills Fairchild Birth 7 Apr 1896 Oneonta, Otsego County, New York, USA Death 28 Mar 1971 (aged 74) New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA Burial Glenwood Cemetery Oneonta, Otsego County, New York, USA Memorial ID 6818698 · View Source Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Memorials Region North America USA New York

Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge Twenty-five years after Nora Kennedy joined the Museum as the first staff Photograph Conservator, the Department of Photograph Conservation was established under Kennedy's leadership as the Sherman Fairchild Conservator of Photographs.

Sherman Fairchild Library Applied Sciences Biology Chemistry Computer Science Engineering Mathematics Physics Reference Services Group Study Rooms DocuServe: Document Delivery & InterLibrary Loan General Registration Reading Room Quiet Study area and carrels Course Reserves PCs Color Printers/Scanners/Copiers Flatbed Scanners Microfilm Reader

Mr. Fairchild attended Harvard College, but his formal education was interrupted by illness. He later studied engineering at Columbia University. He left Columbia during World War I to build an aerial camera for the War Department. The foundation's current name was adopted in 1974.

The Department is part of the Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation. Photographs are created with a combination of optics, light, and chemistry, and despite their relatively brief history, represent an enormous range of physical formats and aesthetic possibilities.