Rare pieces and well done!
I found a lot of gear over the years including Western Electric.
About the closest I ever got to anything Fairchild was getting an "I know someone that may be able to get a hold one." comment at a hamfest.
For all I know it was a WW2 aircraft reconnaissance camera (which actually would have been pretty cool now that I think about it).
Sherman Fairchild started a staggering array of businesses. They've all been bought and sold to different operations so many times over the years that it's difficult to keep track. The only ones I can think of still operating under the original name are Fairchild Semiconductor (now OnSemi, but they seem to be content to keep using the Fairchild name on a lot of products) and Fairchild Industrial Products Company.
Anyone have a clue what happened to the recording equipment subsidiary? The earliest transcription tables were built by the camera division, but the legendary hi-fi and recording equipment was produced by a separate company that was spun off from the camera manufacturer.
Here's an incomplete list of Fairchild's businesses, which includes a lot of reorganizations, holding companies, etc., and is missing a lot of the non-aviation related businesses (also note the exclusion of the Fairchild Recording Equipment Corporation):
http://sova.si.edu/record/NASM.1989-0060
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