Oneonta Firsts
- Computers - the beginning of
the IBM Corporation - Harlow Bundy
- The beginnings of the Magnavox
Corporation
- Sherman Fairchild's first
Aerial Camera, pilot cabins on aircraft and wing flaps
- Pioneer in cable television
with the first tower to transmit New York City programming to our
area
- Father of talking movies, tape
recorders, and some television - Charles Edward Fritts. Patent was
granted in 1916. The patent was first purchased by the Victor Talking
Machine Co. and later transferred to RCA.
- Birthplace of renowned
photographer Carleton
Emmons Watkins. He was responsible for Congress establishing
Yosemite National Park.
- Boyhood home of Collis, Henry,
and Solon Huntingdon of railroad fame.
- Home of the National Soccer
Hall of Fame
- Family home of Willard
Huntingdon Wright (pseudonym S.S. VanDine), author of many books. Most
notable were the Philo Vance mysteries.
- Birthplace of the "Oneonta Clipper" plow. The inventor of the plow is unknown.
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