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Innovation and business in upstate New York

Index Innovation and business in upstate New York

Upstate New York has been the setting for inventions and businesses of international significance. [1]

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  1. 219 relations: Abner Doubleday, Adirondack chair, Adjustable spanner, Albany, New York, Algorithmic composition, American Broadcasting Company, American Locomotive Company, Answers.com, Artificial cardiac pacemaker, Auburn, New York, Automotive air conditioning, Avon, New York, Babcock & Wilcox, Benjamin Goodrich, Benjamin Wright (civil engineer), Birdsill Holly, Bismuth subsalicylate, Boiler, Brannock Device, Buffalo Forge Company, Buffalo, New York, Bully Hill Vineyards, Bundy Manufacturing Company, Carl Paladino, Carrier Global, Cast-iron architecture, Catskill (town), New York, Central Bridge, New York, Charles Crocker, Charles F. Brannock, Charles F. Dowd, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Chazy, New York, Cincinnatus, New York, Clayton (village), New York, Cluett Peabody & Company, Colonial Revival architecture, Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, Cool Whip, Cornell University, Corning Inc., CorningWare, Crescent (brand), Cyanoacrylate, Darwin D. Martin, Delaware North, Detachable collar, Dewey Decimal Classification, Digital camera, Doctor of Philosophy, ... Expand index (169 more) »

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Abner Doubleday

Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893) was a career United States Army officer and Union major general in the American Civil War.

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Adirondack chair

The Adirondack chair is an outdoor lounge chair with wide armrests, a tall slatted back, and a seat that is higher in the front than the back.

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Adjustable spanner

An adjustable spanner (UK and most other English-speaking countries), shifting spanner (Australia and New Zealand), English wrench (Turkey) or adjustable wrench (US and Canada) is any of various styles of spanner (wrench) with a movable jaw, allowing it to be used with different sizes of fastener head (nut, bolt, etc.) rather than just one fastener size, as with a conventional fixed spanner.

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Albany, New York

Albany is the capital and oldest city in the U.S. state of New York, and the seat of and most populous city in Albany County.

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Algorithmic composition

Algorithmic composition is the technique of using algorithms to create music.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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American Locomotive Company

The American Locomotive Company (often shortened to ALCO, ALCo or Alco) was an American manufacturer that operated from 1901 to 1969, initially specializing in the production of locomotives but later diversifying and fabricating at various times diesel generators, automobiles, steel, tanks, munitions, oil-production equipment, as well as heat exchangers for nuclear power plants.

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Answers.com

Answers.com, formerly known as WikiAnswers, is an Internet-based knowledge exchange.

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Artificial cardiac pacemaker

An artificial cardiac pacemaker, commonly referred to as simply a pacemaker, is an implanted medical device that generates electrical pulses delivered by electrodes to one or more of the chambers of the heart.

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Auburn, New York

Auburn is a city in Cayuga County, New York, United States.

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Automotive air conditioning

Automotive air conditioning systems use air conditioning to cool the air in a vehicle.

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Avon, New York

Avon is a town in Livingston County, New York, United States.

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Babcock & Wilcox

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. is an American energy technology and service provider that is active and has operations in many international markets with its headquarters in Akron, Ohio.

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Benjamin Goodrich

Benjamin Franklin Goodrich (November 4, 1841 – August 3, 1888) was an American industrialist in the rubber industry and founder of B.F. Goodrich Company.

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Benjamin Wright (civil engineer)

Benjamin Wright (October 10, 1770 – August 24, 1842) was an American civil engineer who was chief engineer of the Erie Canal and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.

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Birdsill Holly

Birdsill Holly Jr. (November 8, 1820 – April 27, 1894) was an American mechanical engineer and inventor of water hydraulics devices.

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Bismuth subsalicylate

Bismuth subsalicylate, sold generically as pink bismuth and under brand names including Pepto-Bismol, Pepti-Calm and BisBacter, is a medication used to treat temporary discomfort of the stomach and gastrointestinal tract, such as nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, and diarrhea.

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Boiler

A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.

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Brannock Device

The Brannock Device is a measuring instrument invented by Charles F. Brannock for measuring a person's shoe size.

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Buffalo Forge Company

The Buffalo Forge Company was formed in 1878 to manufacture blacksmith’s forges.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.

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Bully Hill Vineyards

Bully Hill Vineyards is a vineyard and winery located in Hammondsport, New York, United States, in the Finger Lakes American Viticultural Area.

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Bundy Manufacturing Company

The Bundy Manufacturing Company was a 19th-century American manufacturer of timekeeping devices that went through a series of mergers, eventually becoming part of International Business Machines and Simplex Time Recorder Company.

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Carl Paladino

Carl Pasquale Paladino (born August 24, 1946) is an American businessman and political activist.

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Carrier Global

Carrier Global Corporation is an American multinational heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), refrigeration, and fire and security equipment corporation based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

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Cast-iron architecture

Cast-iron architecture is the use of cast iron in buildings and objects, ranging from bridges and markets to warehouses, balconies and fences.

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Catskill (town), New York

Catskill is a town in the southeastern section of Greene County, New York, United States.

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Central Bridge, New York

Central Bridge is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) within the towns of Schoharie and Esperance in Schoharie County, New York, United States.

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Charles Crocker

Charles Crocker (September 16, 1822 – August 14, 1888) was an American railroad executive who was one of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad, which constructed the westernmost portion of the first transcontinental railroad, and took control with partners of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

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Charles F. Brannock

Charles F. Brannock (May 16, 1903 – November 22, 1992) was the inventor and manufacturer of the Brannock Device for measuring overall length, width, and heel-to-ball length of the foot.

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Charles F. Dowd

Charles F. Dowd (1825–1904) was a co-principal (with his wife Harriet M. Dowd) of the Temple Grove Ladies Seminary (now Skidmore College) in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Charles Proteus Steinmetz (born Karl August Rudolph Steinmetz; April 9, 1865 – October 26, 1923) was an American mathematician and electrical engineer and professor at Union College.

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Chazy, New York

Chazy is a town in northeastern Clinton County, New York, United States.

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Cincinnatus, New York

Cincinnatus is a small town in Cortland County, New York, United States.

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Clayton (village), New York

Clayton is a village in the town of Clayton in Jefferson County, New York, United States.

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Cluett Peabody & Company

Cluett, Peabody & Company, Inc. once headquartered in Troy, New York, was a longtime manufacturer of shirts, detachable shirt cuffs and collars, and related apparel.

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Colonial Revival architecture

The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture.

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Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company

The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) was a holding company of manufacturers of record-keeping and measuring systems; it was subsequently known as IBM.

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Cool Whip

Cool Whip is an American brand of whipped topping manufactured by Kraft Heinz.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.

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Corning Inc.

Corning Incorporated is an American multinational technology company that specializes in specialty glass, ceramics, and related materials and technologies including advanced optics, primarily for industrial and scientific applications.

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CorningWare

Corning Ware, also written CorningWare, was originally a brand name for a unique glass-ceramic (Pyroceram) cookware resistant to thermal shock.

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Crescent (brand)

Crescent is a brand of hand tools.

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Cyanoacrylate

Cyanoacrylates are a family of strong fast-acting adhesives with industrial, medical, and household uses.

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Darwin D. Martin

Darwin Denice Martin (October 25, 1865 – December 12, 1935) was an early 20th-century New York State businessman best known for the house he commissioned from Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Delaware North

Delaware North is an American multinational food service and hospitality company headquartered in Buffalo, New York.

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Detachable collar

A detachable collar is a shirt collar separate from the shirt, fastened to it by studs.

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Dewey Decimal Classification

The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), colloquially known as the Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system which allows new books to be added to a library in their appropriate location based on subject.

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Digital camera

A digital camera, also called a digicam, is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Dolgeville, New York

Dolgeville is a village in Herkimer and Fulton counties, New York, United States.

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E. C. Stearns Bicycle Agency

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Edward C. Stearns

Edward Carl Stearns (July 12, 1856 – April 21, 1929) was an American entrepreneur and industrialist.

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Edward J. Noble

Edward John Noble (August 8, 1882 – December 28, 1958) was an American broadcasting and candy industrialist originally from Gouverneur, New York.

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Edwin Albert Link (July 26, 1904 – September 7, 1981) was an American inventor, entrepreneur and pioneer in aviation, underwater archaeology, and submersibles.

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Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher.

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Eliphalet Remington

Eliphalet Remington (October 28, 1793 – August 12, 1861) was an American engineer who founded what would become known as Remington Arms.

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Ellicott Development Co.

Ellicott Development Co. is an American property management, leasing and development real estate firm based in Buffalo, New York and led by CEO William Paladino.

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Elmer Ambrose Sperry

Elmer Ambrose Sperry Sr. (October 12, 1860 – June 16, 1930) was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for construction, two years after Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, of the gyrocompass and as founder of the Sperry Gyroscope Company.

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Endicott Johnson Corporation

The Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company ("E-J") was a prosperous manufacturer of shoes based in New York's Southern Tier, with factories mostly located in the area's Triple Cities of Binghamton, Johnson City, and Endicott.

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Erastus Corning

Erastus Corning (December 14, 1794 – April 9, 1872) was an American businessman and politician from Albany, New York.

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Ezra Cornell

Ezra Cornell (January 11, 1807 – December 9, 1874) was an American businessman, politician, academic, and philanthropist.

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Fisher-Price

Fisher-Price, Inc. is an American company that produces educational toys for infants, toddlers and preschoolers, headquartered in East Aurora, New York.

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Flight simulator

A flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and the environment in which it flies, for pilot training, design, or other purposes.

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Food science

Food science is the basic science and applied science of food; its scope starts at overlap with agricultural science and nutritional science and leads through the scientific aspects of food safety and food processing, informing the development of food technology.

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Francis A. Pratt

Francis Ashbury Pratt (February 15, 1827 – February 10, 1902) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, and co-founder of Pratt & Whitney.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator.

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Frank Winfield Woolworth

Frank Winfield Woolworth (April 13, 1852 – April 8, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company, and the operator of variety stores known as "Five-and-Dimes" (5- and 10-cent stores or dime stores) which featured a selection of low-priced merchandise.

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General Electric

General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston.

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George Cogar

George R. Cogar (born 1932, disappeared 1983) was an American computer scientist and engineer.

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George Eastman

George Eastman (July 12, 1854March 14, 1932) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream.

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George Franklin Grant

George Franklin Grant (September 15, 1846 – August 21, 1910) was the first African-American professor at Harvard.

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George Herman Babcock

George Herman Babcock (June 17, 1832 – December 16, 1893) was an American inventor.

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George Speck

George Speck (also known as George Crum;Hugh Bradley, Such Was Saratoga, New York: 1940 July 15, 1824 – July 22, 1914) was an American chef.

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George West (American politician)

George West (February 17, 1823September 20, 1901) was an industrialist and a U.S. Representative from New York.

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George Westinghouse

George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who created the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, receiving his first patent at the age of 19.

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Glenn Curtiss

Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry.

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Glider (sailplane)

A glider or sailplane is a type of glider aircraft used in the leisure activity and sport of gliding (also called soaring).

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GlobalFoundries

GlobalFoundries Inc. is a multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company incorporated in the Cayman Islands and headquartered in Malta, New York.

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Gouverneur (village), New York

Gouverneur is a village in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States.

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Gyrocompass

A gyrocompass is a type of non-magnetic compass which is based on a fast-spinning disc and the rotation of the Earth (or another planetary body if used elsewhere in the universe) to find geographical direction automatically.

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Hamdi Ulukaya

Hamdi Ulukaya (born 26 October 1972) is a Turkish billionaire businessman, activist, philanthropist of Kurdish ethnicity and based in the United States.

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Harry Coover

Harry Wesley Coover Jr. (March 6, 1917 – March 26, 2011) was the inventor of Eastman 910, commonly known as Super Glue.

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Henry Farnam

Henry Farnam (November 9, 1803 – October 4, 1883) was an American philanthropist and railroad president.

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Henry Wells

Henry Wells (December 12, 1805 – December 10, 1878) was an American businessman important in the history of both the American Express Company and Wells Fargo & Company.

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Herkimer (village), New York

Herkimer is a village on the north side of the Mohawk River and the county seat of Herkimer County, New York, United States, about southeast of Utica.

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Herman Hollerith

Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was an American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing information and, later, in accounting.

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Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe

Hermann Franz Joseph Hubertus Maria Anschütz-Kaempfe (3 October 1872 – 6 May 1931) was a German art historian and inventor.

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History of the Philadelphia 76ers

The Philadelphia 76ers are an American basketball team currently playing in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Horseheads, New York

Horseheads is a town in Chemung County, New York, United States.

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Houdaille Industries

Houdaille Industries was a diversified manufacturing company which produced automotive products, industrial products, machine tools, construction materials and contracting.

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Houghton family

The Houghton family is a prominent New England and Upstate New York business family.

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Hudson River

The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York, United States.

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IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.

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Interstate 87 (New York)

Interstate 87 (I-87) is a north–south Interstate Highway located entirely within the US state of New York.

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Invention

An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea or process.

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Isaac Singer

Isaac Merritt Singer (October 27, 1811 – July 23, 1875) was an American inventor, actor, and businessman.

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James Bogardus

James Bogardus (March 14, 1800 – April 13, 1874) was an American inventor and architect, the pioneer of American cast-iron architecture, for which he took out a patent in 1850.

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Jamestown, New York

Jamestown is a city in southern Chautauqua County, New York, United States.

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Jay Gould

Jason Gould (May 27, 1836 – December 2, 1892) was an American railroad magnate and financial speculator who founded the Gould business dynasty.

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Jell-O

Jell-O, stylised as JELL-O, is an American brand offering a variety of powdered gelatin dessert (fruit-flavored gels/jellies), pudding, and no-bake cream pie mixes.

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Jeremy Jacobs

Jeremy Maurice Jacobs Sr. (born January 21, 1940) is an American billionaire businessman, the owner of the Boston Bruins and chairman of Delaware North.

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Jesse Hawley (merchant)

Jesse Hawley (May 11, 1773 – January 10, 1842) was an American flour merchant in Geneva, New York, who became an early and major proponent of building of the Erie Canal.

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Jethro Wood

Jethro Wood (March 16, 1774 – 1834) was the inventor of a cast-iron moldboard plow with replaceable parts, the first commercially successful iron moldboard plow.

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John Augustus Just

Dr.

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John B. Jervis

John Bloomfield Jervis (December 14, 1795 – January 12, 1885) was an American civil engineer.

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John Butterfield (businessman)

John Butterfield (November 18, 1801 – November 14, 1869) was a transportation pioneer in the mid-19th century in the American Northwest and Southwest.

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John D. Larkin

John Durrant Larkin (September 29, 1845 - February 15, 1926) was an American business magnate who pioneered the mail-order business model, developed (with business partner and brother-in-law Elbert Hubbard) the marketing strategy of offering premiums to customers, introduced revolutionary employment innovations, and commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright's first major public work, the Larkin Administration Building.

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Joseph Ellicott

Joseph Ellicott (November 1, 1760 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania – August 19, 1826 in New York City) was an American surveyor, city planner, land office agent, lawyer and politician of the Quaker faith.

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Julius Sämann

Julius Sämann (15 April 1911 in Uffenheim, Germany – May 9, 1999) was a German-Canadian chemist who invented many everyday items, including Little Trees pine-tree-shaped air fresheners in Watertown, New York in 1952.

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Katharine Burr Blodgett

Katharine Burr Blodgett (January 10, 1898 – October 12, 1979) was an American physicist and chemist known for her work on surface chemistry, in particular her invention of "invisible" or nonreflective glass while working at General Electric. She was the first woman to be awarded a PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge, in 1926.

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Keypunch

A keypunch is a device for precisely punching holes into stiff paper cards at specific locations as determined by keys struck by a human operator.

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Konstantin Frank

Dr.

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Lansing, New York

Lansing is a town in Tompkins County, New York, United States.

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Larkin Administration Building

The Larkin Building was an office building in Buffalo, New York, noted for innovations that included central air conditioning, built-in desk furniture, and suspended toilet partitions and bowls.

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Letchworth State Park

Letchworth State Park is a New York State Park located in Livingston County and Wyoming County in the western part of the State of New York.

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Life Savers

Life Savers (stylized as LifeSavers) is an American brand of ring-shaped hard and soft candy.

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Lightning (dinghy)

The Lightning is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Olin Stephens of Sparkman & Stephens, as a one-design racer and first built in 1938.

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Linus Yale Jr.

Linus Yale Jr. (April 4, 1821 – December 25, 1868) was an American businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and metalsmith.

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Little Trees

Little Trees are disposable air fresheners shaped like a stylized evergreen tree, marketed for use in motor vehicles, and most commonly seen hanging from rear-view mirrors.

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Little Valley (village), New York

Little Valley is a village and the county seat of Cattaraugus County, New York, United States.

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Locomotive

A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.

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Lyman Cornelius Smith

Lyman Cornelius Smith (1850–1910) was an American innovator and industrialist.

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M. Wile and Company Factory Building

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Mail chute

A mail chute is a device by which mail is collected for pick-up by a post office from within high-rise buildings, such as offices, hospitals, and hotels.

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Malta, New York

Malta is a town in Saratoga County, New York, United States.

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Mark Hopkins Jr.

Mark Hopkins Jr. (September 3, 1814 – March 29, 1878) was an American railroad executive.

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Mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement.

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Mohawk Industries

Mohawk Industries is an American flooring manufacturer based in Calhoun, Georgia, United States.

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Moog Music

Moog Music Inc. is an American synthesizer company based in Asheville, North Carolina.

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Moon's Lake House

Moon's Lake House was a restaurant on Saratoga Lake in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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Movietone sound system

The Movietone sound system is an optical sound-on-film method of recording sound for motion pictures, ensuring synchronization between sound and picture.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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New York Air Brake

The New York Air Brake Corporation, located in Watertown, New York, is a manufacturer of air brake and train control systems for the railroad industry worldwide.

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Niagara Falls, New York

Niagara Falls is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States.

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Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (occasionally shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel owned by Paramount Global through Paramount Media Networks' subdivision, Nickelodeon Group.

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North River Steamboat

The North River Steamboat or North River, colloquially known as the Clermont, is widely regarded as the world's first vessel to demonstrate the viability of using steam propulsion for commercial water transportation.

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North Tonawanda, New York

North Tonawanda is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States.

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Norwich Pharma Services

Norwich Pharma Services, previously known as Norwich Eaton Pharmaceuticals, Norwich Pharmacal, and Norwich Pharmaceuticals, is a manufacturer, packager, and distributor of prescription drugs and over-the-counter products.

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Norwich, New York

Norwich is a city and county seat of Chenango County, New York, United States.

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Orville Gibson

Orville H. Gibson (May 1856 – August 19, 1918) was an American luthier who founded the Gibson Guitar Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1902, makers of guitars, mandolins and other instruments.

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Owen D. Young

Owen D. Young (October 27, 1874July 11, 1962) was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929, as a member of the German Reparations International Commission.

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Palatine Bridge, New York

Palatine Bridge is a village in Montgomery County, New York, United States.

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Paul Busti

Paul Busti (8 October 1749 – 23 July 1824) was the Agent General (chief operating officer) of the Holland Land Company from 1799 until his death in 1824.

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Peru, New York

Peru is a town in Clinton County in the U.S. state of New York.

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Photocopier

A photocopier (also called copier or copy machine, and formerly Xerox machine, the generic trademark) is a machine that makes copies of documents and other visual images onto paper or plastic film quickly and cheaply.

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Physics

Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.

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Pie à la Mode

Pie à la Mode (literally "pie in the current fashion" or "fashionable pie") is pie served with ice cream.

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Pin tumbler lock

The pin tumbler lock, also known as the Yale lock after the inventor of the modern version, is a lock mechanism that uses pins of varying lengths to prevent the lock from opening without the correct key.

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Plank road

A plank road is a road composed of wooden planks or puncheon logs, as an efficient technology for traversing soft, marshy, or otherwise difficult ground.

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Potato chip

A potato chip (NAmE and AuE; often just chip) or crisp (BrE and IrE) is a thin slice of potato (or a thin deposit of potato paste) that has been deep fried, baked, or air fried until crunchy.

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Pratt & Whitney

Pratt & Whitney is an American aerospace manufacturer with global service operations.

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QWERTY

QWERTY is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets.

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R. E. Dietz Company

R.E. Dietz Company was a lighting products manufacturer best known for its hot blast and cold blast kerosene lanterns.

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Ralph Peo

Ralph Frederick Peo (May 3, 1897 – November 29, 1966) was an American inventor, engineer, business executive in the automobile industry, and the holder of 150 patents.

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Remington Rand

Remington Rand, Inc. was an early American business machine manufacturer, originally a typewriter manufacturer and in a later incarnation the manufacturer of the UNIVAC line of mainframe computers.

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RH (company)

RH (formerly Restoration Hardware) is an upscale American home-furnishings company headquartered in Corte Madera, California.

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Ripley, New York

Ripley is a town on Lake Erie in the westernmost part of Chautauqua County, New York, United States.

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Robert C. Baker

Robert Carl Baker (December 29, 1921 – March 13, 2006) was an American inventor and Cornell University professor.

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Robert C. Pruyn

Robert Clarence Pruyn (October 23, 1847 – October 29, 1934) was an American inventor, banker, businessman, and politician.

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Robert E. Rich Sr.

Robert E. Rich Sr. (July 7, 1913 – February 15, 2006) was a food processing pioneer and executive.

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Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the (also known as Clermont).

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Robert Gundlach

Robert W. Gundlach (September 7, 1926 – August 18, 2010) was an American physicist.

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Robert Moog

Robert Arthur Moog (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American engineer and electronic music pioneer.

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Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Monroe County.

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Rosendale cement

Rosendale cement is a natural hydraulic cement that was produced in and around Rosendale, New York, beginning in 1825.

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Roxbury, New York

Roxbury is a town in Delaware County, New York, United States.

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Salt

In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).

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Samuel Wilson

Samuel Wilson (September 13, 1766 – July 31, 1854) was an American meat packer who lived in Troy, New York, whose name is purportedly the source of the personification of the United States known as "Uncle Sam".

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Saratoga County, New York

Saratoga County is a county in the U.S. state of New York, and is the fastest-growing county in Upstate New York.

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Saratoga Springs, New York

Saratoga Springs is a city in Saratoga County, New York, United States.

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Schenectady, New York

Schenectady is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat.

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Schweizer Aircraft

The Schweizer Aircraft Corporation was an American manufacturer of sailplanes, agricultural aircraft and helicopters located in Horseheads, New York.

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Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material that has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass.

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Semiconductor industry

The semiconductor industry is the aggregate of companies engaged in the design and fabrication of semiconductors and semiconductor devices, such as transistors and integrated circuits.

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Serotta

Serotta is an American bicycle builder located in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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Seth Green (pisciculture)

Seth Green (March 19, 1817 – August 18, 1888) was an American pioneer in fish farming (pisciculture and aquaculture).

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Shock absorber

A shock absorber or damper is a mechanical or hydraulic device designed to absorb and damp shock impulses.

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Shot clock

A shot clock is a countdown timer used in a variety of games and sports, indicating a set amount of time that a team may possess the object of play before attempting to score a goal.

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Shredded wheat

Shredded wheat is a breakfast cereal made from whole wheat formed into pillow-shaped biscuits.

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Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation.

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Singer Corporation

Singer Corporation is an American manufacturer of consumer sewing machines, first established as I. M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac M. Singer with New York lawyer Edward C. Clark.

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Smith Corona

Smith Corona is an American manufacturer of thermal labels, direct thermal labels, and thermal ribbons used in warehouses for primarily barcode labels.

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Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.

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Sound-on-film

Sound-on-film is a class of sound film processes where the sound accompanying a picture is recorded on photographic film, usually, but not always, the same strip of film carrying the picture.

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Spencer Trask

Spencer Trask (September 18, 1844 – December 31, 1909) was an American financier, philanthropist, and venture capitalist.

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Steam

Steam is a substance containing water in the gas phase, often mixed with air and/or an aerosol of liquid water droplets.

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Stephen Wilcox

Stephen Wilcox, Jr. (February 12, 1830 – November 27, 1893) was an American inventor, best known as the co-inventor (with George Herman Babcock) of the water-tube boiler.

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Steven Sasson

Steven J. Sasson (born July 4, 1950) is an American electrical engineer and the inventor of the self-contained (portable) digital camera.

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Syracuse, New York

Syracuse is a city in, and the county seat of, Onondaga County, New York, United States.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Theodore Burr

Theodore Burr (August 16, 1771 – November 22, 1822) was an inventor from Torrington, Connecticut, who was credited with the Burr Arch Truss bridge design.

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Theodore Case

Theodore Willard Case (December 12, 1888 – May 13, 1944) was an American chemist who invented the Movietone sound-on-film system.

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman.

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Thomas J. Watson

Thomas John Watson Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was an American businessman who was the chairman and CEO of IBM.

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Trico

Trico is an American company that specializes in windshield wipers.

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Troy, New York

Troy is a city in the United States state of New York and is the county seat of Rensselaer County, New York.

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Trumansburg, New York

Trumansburg is a village in Tompkins County, New York, United States.

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Typewriter

A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters.

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Unadilla Forks, New York

Unadilla Forks is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in the Town of Plainfield in Otsego County, New York, United States, at the confluence of the two branches of the Unadilla River on the Otsego-Madison County border.

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Uncle Sam

Uncle Sam (which has the same initials as United States) is a common national personification of the federal government of the United States or the country in general.

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Unguentine

Unguentine is an over-the-counter topical antiseptic ointment produced by Lee Pharmaceuticals.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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Upstate New York

Upstate New York is a geographic region of New York that lies north and northwest of the New York City metropolitan area of downstate New York.

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Variety store

A variety store (also five and dime (historic), pound shop, or dollar store) is a retail store that sells general merchandise, such as apparel, auto parts, dry goods, toys, hardware, furniture, and a selection of groceries.

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W. R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co.

W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Company is an American manufacturer of traditional pocket knives, fixed blades/sporting knives, kitchen knives, limited edition commemoratives and collectibles.

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Watertown, New York

Watertown is a city in, and the county seat of, Jefferson County, New York, United States.

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Webster Wagner

Webster Wagner (October 2, 1817 – January 13, 1882) was an American inventor, manufacturer and politician from New York.

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Whipped cream

Whipped cream is a preparation of heavy, double, or other high-fat dairy cream that has been aerated by whisking or mixing until it becomes light, fluffy, and capable of holding its shape.

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William Fargo

William George Fargo (May 20, 1818 – August 3, 1881) was an American businessman and politician.

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William H. Miner

William Henry Miner (c. 1862 – 1930) was an American entrepreneur, industrialist, pioneer and philanthropist.

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William Pryor Letchworth

William Pryor Letchworth (May 26, 1823 – December 1, 1910) was an American businessman notable for his charitable work, including his donation of his 1,000-acre estate to the State of New York which became known as Letchworth State Park.

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William Seward Burroughs I

William Seward Burroughs I (January 28, 1857 – September 14, 1898) was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York.

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Willis Carrier

Willis Haviland Carrier (November 26, 1876 – October 7, 1950) was an American engineer, best known for inventing modern air conditioning.

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Wilson Greatbatch

Wilson Greatbatch (September 6, 1919 – September 27, 2011) was an American engineer and pioneering inventor.

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Windscreen wiper

A windscreen wiper (Commonwealth English) or windshield wiper (American English) is a device used to remove rain, snow, ice, washer fluid, water, or other debris from a vehicle's front window.

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Wurlitzer

The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to as simply Wurlitzer, is an American company started in Cincinnati in 1853 by German immigrant (Franz) Rudolph Wurlitzer.

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Yaddo

Yaddo is an artists' community located on a estate in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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Zadock Pratt

Zadock Pratt Jr. (October 30, 1790 – April 5, 1871) was a tanner, banker, soldier, and member of the United States House of Representatives for two non-consecutive terms in the mid-19th century.

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See also

Upstate New York

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_and_business_in_upstate_New_York

Also known as Inventors and Business Leaders of Upstate New York, List of inventors and business leaders of Upstate New York.

, Dolgeville, New York, E. C. Stearns Bicycle Agency, Edward C. Stearns, Edward J. Noble, Edwin Albert Link, Elbert Hubbard, Eliphalet Remington, Ellicott Development Co., Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Endicott Johnson Corporation, Erastus Corning, Ezra Cornell, Fisher-Price, Flight simulator, Food science, Francis A. Pratt, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Winfield Woolworth, General Electric, George Cogar, George Eastman, George Franklin Grant, George Herman Babcock, George Speck, George West (American politician), George Westinghouse, Glenn Curtiss, Glider (sailplane), GlobalFoundries, Gouverneur (village), New York, Gyrocompass, Hamdi Ulukaya, Harry Coover, Henry Farnam, Henry Wells, Herkimer (village), New York, Herman Hollerith, Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, History of the Philadelphia 76ers, Horseheads, New York, Houdaille Industries, Houghton family, Hudson River, IBM, Interstate 87 (New York), Invention, Isaac Singer, James Bogardus, Jamestown, New York, Jay Gould, Jell-O, Jeremy Jacobs, Jesse Hawley (merchant), Jethro Wood, John Augustus Just, John B. Jervis, John Butterfield (businessman), John D. Larkin, Joseph Ellicott, Julius Sämann, Katharine Burr Blodgett, Keypunch, Konstantin Frank, Lansing, New York, Larkin Administration Building, Letchworth State Park, Life Savers, Lightning (dinghy), Linus Yale Jr., Little Trees, Little Valley (village), New York, Locomotive, Lyman Cornelius Smith, M. Wile and Company Factory Building, Mail chute, Malta, New York, Mark Hopkins Jr., Mechanical engineering, Mohawk Industries, Moog Music, Moon's Lake House, Movietone sound system, National Basketball Association, New York Air Brake, Niagara Falls, New York, Nickelodeon, North River Steamboat, North Tonawanda, New York, Norwich Pharma Services, Norwich, New York, Orville Gibson, Owen D. Young, Palatine Bridge, New York, Paul Busti, Peru, New York, Photocopier, Physics, Pie à la Mode, Pin tumbler lock, Plank road, Potato chip, Pratt & Whitney, QWERTY, R. E. Dietz Company, Ralph Peo, Remington Rand, RH (company), Ripley, New York, Robert C. Baker, Robert C. Pruyn, Robert E. Rich Sr., Robert Fulton, Robert Gundlach, Robert Moog, Rochester, New York, Rosendale cement, Roxbury, New York, Salt, Samuel Wilson, Saratoga County, New York, Saratoga Springs, New York, Schenectady, New York, Schweizer Aircraft, Semiconductor, Semiconductor industry, Serotta, Seth Green (pisciculture), Shock absorber, Shot clock, Shredded wheat, Silicon Valley, Singer Corporation, Smith Corona, Sound film, Sound-on-film, Spencer Trask, Steam, Stephen Wilcox, Steven Sasson, Syracuse, New York, The New York Times, Theodore Burr, Theodore Case, Thomas Edison, Thomas J. Watson, Trico, Troy, New York, Trumansburg, New York, Typewriter, Unadilla Forks, New York, Uncle Sam, Unguentine, University of Cambridge, Upstate New York, Variety store, W. R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co., Watertown, New York, Webster Wagner, Whipped cream, William Fargo, William H. Miner, William Pryor Letchworth, William Seward Burroughs I, Willis Carrier, Wilson Greatbatch, Windscreen wiper, Wurlitzer, Yaddo, Zadock Pratt.