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Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation was a company founded by Sherman Fairchild. It was based on the East Coast of the United States, and provided research and development for flash photography equipment. The technology was primarily used for DOD spy satellites.
- Background
- Oscillograph Cameras
- Portrait Cameras
- Camera Transits
- Other
- Notes
Sherman M. Fairchild was born in Oneonta, New York, in April 1896 as the only child of congressman and a founder of International Business Machines (IBM), George W Fairchild. Sherman attended college at Harvard, the University of Arizona, and Columbia, studying engineering and aerial photography (graduating from none of them). In 1917 Fairchild was...
321-A Oscilloscope Record Camera
A camera designed to record the display of a Cathode Ray Oscilloscope. Fitted with a 400ft magazine the camera was capable of a range of recording speeds from 0.8 inches/sec to 10,800 inches/sec.
Dumont Oscilloscope Record Camera
A move camera designed to record the the display of a Cathode Ray Oscilloscope. Fitted with Wollensak-Dumont CRO Oscillo-Anastigmat 75mm f/1.9
F-246A
The F-246AFairchild Oscilloscope Recording Camera was a cine camera with a slit system (strip camera) to to provide a continual record of the Oscilloscope waves. Used a 1000 ft magazine.
F-212
An automated portrait camera for 70mm film, powered by 115 Volts
F-340
Polaroid ID Camera with inbuilt flash system based on the Polaroid Land Camera Model 95.
F-227
The Fairchild F-227 Camera Transit comprised of a Keuffel & Esser Surveyor's Transit (type 5078-E) modified to support a 4x5" plate camera fitted with a Goerz Aerotar 8 1/4 f/6.8 in Wollensak Betax nº 4 shutter.
Other Photographica produced or distributed by Fairchild were 1. F-213Fairchild-Smith 700 Film Developing Unit (~1955) 2. CCD201ADC, CCD imaging sensor of the first true digital camera(1975)
Links
1. Biography of Sherman Mills Fairchild (aircraft and aerial camera entrepreneur) at Butler County Warbirds 2. Spennemann, Dirk HR (2015) History, Description and Technical Details of the Fairchild camera transit F227. vers. 1.0 [CAMERA | TOPIA ] (Albury, NSW).
The company’s cameras soon became the standard for military aerial photography. In 1944, the company changed its name to the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, and expanded its product lineup to include other military equipment like machine guns cameras, radar cameras, and x-ray cameras.
Jul 13, 2015 · Fairchild Semiconductor, a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, introduced the first commercial family of monolithic ICs, a variant of direct coupled transistor logic (DCTL), under the trade name Micrologic at the IRE Show in New York in March 1961.
Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation was a company founded by Sherman Fairchild. It was based on the East Coast of the United States, and provided research and development for flash photography equipment.
In 1944 Fairchild changed the company name from Fairchild Aviation to Fairchild Camera and Instrument Company. Its product portfolio expanded during World War II from aerial photography equipment to include machine gun cameras, x-ray cameras, radar cameras, gun synchronizers, and radio compasses.
Fairchild Semiconductor was founded in 1957 when Sherman Mills Fairchild, founder of Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp., helped a group of scientists set up a transistor manufacturing plant in what is now known as Silicon Valley (Santa Clara Valley, California).
