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Upstate New York has been the setting for inventions and businesses of international significance. The abundance of water power and the advent of canal and rail transportation provided nineteenth century Upstate New York entrepreneurs with the means to power factories and send their products to market. In the twentieth century, hydroelectric power and the New York State Thruway served the same roles. ==Inventors and business leaders== *George Herman Babcock, born in Unadilla Forks, co-invented an improved safety water tube steam boiler. Together with Stephen Wilcox he founded the Babcock & Wilcox boiler company. *Robert C. Baker, the "Thomas Edison of poultry," a Lansing native and food science professor at Cornell University. *Katharine Burr Blodgett of Schenectady was the first woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Cambridge in 1926. After receiving her master's degree, she was hired by General Electric, where she invented low-reflectance "invisible" glass. *James Bogardus, born in Catskill, was an inventor and architect, the pioneer of American cast-iron architecture. *Charles F. Brannock of Syracuse was the inventor and manufacturer of the familiar Brannock Device for measuring the foot. *Willard Bundy, the inventor of the time clock for recording employee working hours. *Theodore Burr *William Seward Burroughs I, born in Rochester, was an inventor. *Paolo Busti *John Warren Butterfield (1801–1869) was an operator of stagecoach and freight lines in the mid-19th century in the American Northeast and Southwest. He founded companies that became American Express and Wells Fargo. *Willis Carrier, the inventor of air conditioning *Theodore Case of Auburn is known for the invention of the Movietone sound-on-film sound film system. *William Russell Case of Little Valley, founder of the cutlery company that bears his name *George Cogar of Herkimer *Harry Coover, inventor of Krazy Glue *Ezra Cornell *Erastus Corning *Charles Crocker *George Crum, the head chef of Moon's Lake House, a resort in Saratoga Springs, and the inventor of the potato chip. *Glenn Curtiss *Abner Doubleday *Charles F. Dowd of Saratoga Springs, who first proposed standard time zones for American railroads *Frederick W. Eames of Watertown, inventor of a vacuum brake for railroad cars. His company was reorganized as the New York Air Brake company, which continues to operate.〔()〕〔()〕 *George Eastman *Joseph Ellicott *William Fargo, Mayor of Buffalo and founder of the American Express Company *Henry Farnam, born in Scipio *Dr. Konstantin Frank, viticulturalist *Carl Frink of Clayton, an innovator in the snow plow manufacturing industry〔()〕〔()〕 *Robert Fulton, whose steamboat the Clermont (steamboat) served the Hudson River between New York City and Albany *Orville Gibson *Dr. B. F. Goodrich, founder of the tire company that bears his name, was born in Ripley. *Stephen Gordon, Plattsburgh native and founder of Restoration Hardware *Jay Gould of Roxbury, a financier who became a leading American railroad developer and speculator. *William Henry Gunlocke, furniture manufacturer〔()〕〔()〕 *Wilson Greatbatch, who advanced the development of the pacemaker *Seth Green, pioneer in fish farming, inventor of the fish hatchery *Robert Gundlach, born near Buffalo, made prolific contributions to the field of xerography, specifically the development of the modern photocopier. Gundlach helped transform the Haloid Company, a small photographic firm, into the Xerox Corporation. *Jesse Hawley of Geneva, influential proponent of the Erie Canal *Herman Hollerith, born in Buffalo, a statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards. His company was eventually merged into others to form IBM. *Birdsill Holly *Mark Hopkins, Jr. *the Houghton family of the Corning Glass Works *Elbert Hubbard *Jeremy Jacobs, founder of Delaware North Companies, and his family *John B. Jervis *John Augustus Just *John D. Larkin of the Larkin Soap Company, who commissioned the Larkin Administration Building from Frank Lloyd Wright *Edwin Albert Link *Darwin D. Martin *David Maydole, blacksmith and inventor of adz-eye hammer construction method. He founded the Maydole Hammer Factory, once the largest hammer factory in the nation, in Norwich. *William Henry Miner, railroad equipment manufacturer, philanthropist, founder of the Miner Institute at Heart's Delight Farm in Chazy *Hannah Lord Montague of Troy, inventor of the detachable shirt collar *Robert Moog, who invented the music synthesizer while a graduate student at Cornell University. He founded his company Moog Music in Trumansburg. *Edward John Noble, born in Gouverneur, founder of the Life Savers Candy Company and the American Broadcasting Company *Carl Paladino, founder of the Ellicott Development Co. *Karl Peterson, founder of the Crescent Tool Company of Jamestown, New York, maker of Crescent wrenches.〔()〕 *Francis Ashbury Pratt, born in Peru, was a mechanical engineer, inventor, and cofounder of Pratt & Whitney. *Zadock Pratt, from Prattsville, was a tanner, banker, soldier, and member of the United States House of Representatives. *Robert C. Pruyn *Eliphalet Remington, firearms and typewriter manufacturer. The Remington typewriter, later manufactured by Remington Rand, was the first typewriter to use the QWERTY keyboard layout, *Robert E. Rich, Sr. of Buffalo, was a food-processing pioneer who, in 1945, invented the first non-dairy whipped topping that could be frozen. *Julius Sämann, inventor of Little Trees *Steven Sasson, the inventor of the digital camera *Ben Serotta, builder of custom racing bicycle *Isaac Singer, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company *L. C. Smith, typewriter innovator and founder of the company that became Smith-Corona *Elmer Ambrose Sperry, born at Cincinnatus, was a prolific inventor and entrepreneur], most famous as co-inventor, with Herman Anschütz-Kaempfe of the gyrocompass. *Edward C. Stearns *Charles Proteus Steinmetz *Walter S. Taylor, founder of Bully Hill Vineyards *Spencer Trask, Saratoga Springs venture capitalist and philanthropist, who backed Thomas Edison, rescued the New York Times and founded the artists' colony Yaddo *Hamdi Ulukaya *Webster Wagner, an inventor of the railroad sleeping car and the parlor car. Born in Palatine Bridge, he founded the Webster Palace Car Company in Buffalo〔()〕 *Thomas J. Watson of IBM *Henry Wells, founder of American Express, Wells Fargo, and Wells College *George West, "The Paper Bag King" *George Westinghouse, born in Central Bridge. *Samuel Wilson, namesake of Uncle Sam *Jethro Wood, inventor of a cast-iron plow with replaceable parts *Frank Winfield Woolworth *Benjamin Wright *Linus Yale, Jr., Inventor of the Yale Lock 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Innovation and business in Upstate New York」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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