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. In April 2021, GlobalFoundries, a company specializing in the semiconductor industry, moved its headquarters from Silicon Valley, California to its most advanced semiconductor-chip manufacturing facility in Saratoga County, New York near a section of the Adirondack Northway, in Malta, New York. 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, Cornell graduate, invented air conditioning while in Buffalo 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.