Center for Technology & Innovation, Inc., 321 Water Street, Binghamton, NY 13901, Telephone: 607-624-1090
Tech Works! museum has a home
CT & I's mission is to document and present in context the inventions and industrial
innovations of
New York's Southern Tier.
Upstate New York has a heritage that continues today of creative technology enterprises, whose guidance systems, computers, flight simulators, cameras, and high-speed film helped the US win the race to the moon.
Ed White uses Anscochrome 200 on his Gemini IV EVA, a mission supported by flight
simulators from Link Aviation Devices, avionics from General Electric-Westover, Johnson
City, NY, and IBM-Owego, whose guidance computer was the first use of silicon transistors
in space, as well as the first use of a digital computer in space to change a spacecraft's
orbit.
Gemini IV (Image S65-30427) June 1965 courtesy of NASA-JSC
Shuttle Mission Specialist Doug Wheelock, graduate of Windsor High School, Broome
County, NY, installing solar panels for the International Space Station. Space Shuttle
door and arms are manipulated with aluminum components from Phillips Foundry and
flexible shafts from Elliot Manufacturing, both Binghamton, NY companies.
Space Shuttle
(STS-120) July 2007
courtesy NASA-JSC
Buy EJ Shoe Tune CD, Link parts and manuals or make a tax-deductible donation to CT&I or the IBM 1440 Project
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Many thanks to all who visited the Prototype Workshop Open House.
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Ch34 report about the Open House