Industries, inventor of early Automobile air conditioning and shock absorbers 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 Owen D. Young, founder of RCA Inventions the Adirondack chair Automobile air conditioning the Brannock Device the chicken nugget the chicken barbecue the detachable collar the digital camera CorningWare the Dewey Decimal System the fish hatchery the five and dime the flight simulator Jell-O Krazy Glue, invented by Harry Coover while working at Eastman Kodak in 1942. The Lightning sailboat. The design was commissioned by the Skaneateles Boat Company, who then first produced it. Little Trees, the pine-tree-shaped air freshener for cars the square-bottomed paper bag the mail chute Pepto-Bismol the photocopier, introduced by the Rochester firm Xerox in 1949 Pie a