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Preserving Heritage: Southern Tier's Industrial Innovations

Step into history with Center for Technology & Innovation as we celebrate and showcase local inventions and industries through dynamic displays and hands-on experiences. Explore the past, safeguard the present, and inspire the future! Contact us to volunteer or learn more.

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Preserving Heritage: Southern Tier's Industrial Innovations

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  1. Memories Matter! Susan I. Sherwood Executive Director Center for Technology & Innovation, Inc. www.ctandi.org director@ctandi.org 607-773-0092

  2. Center for Technology & Innovation’s mission is to document and present in context the inventions and industrial innovations of New York’s Southern Tier. (adopted September 2003)

  3. Exploring what’s new in what’s old. From: The annals of Binghamton of 1840, with an appraisal, 1840-1967 by Tom Cawley, illustrated by John Hart (1967).

  4. Victor LaStella Special Wireman, IBM 1940s Automated Sequence Calculating Computer

  5. When in doubt, DON'T throw it out

  6. Priority Efforts: Collect the stories Scan documents & photos Salvage industrial artifacts Prepare school curricula Develop Museum Master Plan

  7. Tech Works! celebrate creativity & entrepreneurial spirit in an historic industrial atmosphere showcase local inventions & industries with dynamic displays of technology in action offer opportunities for problem solving & hands-on craftsmanship refreshments for the body and mind at Heavy Metal Café and gift shop

  8. Pending successful fundraising, CT&I museum to be located at Triple Cities Transit Co. Trolley Barn 375 State Street, Binghamton Image courtesy of Broome County Historical Society

  9. Southern Poverty Law Center

  10. Testing EH Titchener wire bending exhibit Bend your own giant paper clip

  11. Rolling, Rolling, Rolling Create dynamic museum displays from Azon paper coating machine Funded by Hoyt Foundation

  12. How Sweet it Was – Candy Making and Wrapping in 20th C. Southern Tier Image courtesy of Broome County Historical Society

  13. Image courtesy of Broome County Historical Society

  14. Everybody has a story & collectively, they make history.

  15. Collecting stories is simple 1. Consent Form 2. Photograph 3. Start Recording

  16. Telephone recording quality based on phone accoustics Digital recorder uploads to PC via USB port

  17. BOB EDWARDS' INTERVIEW TIPS Oh? No? Really?

  18. Mary & Don Rex 60 Minutes is a good start

  19. Joe Vignos, IBM Stuff triggers memories

  20. Mike Vanuga, Alan Jones, IBM Glendale Conversation among colleagues

  21. Telling stories for future generations Gordon & Michael Phillips, former CEO's of Phillips Foundry, Binghamton Aluminum castings

  22. Oral History Listening Post Partners Trust Bank Washington Avenue Endicott, NY

  23. Digital Scrapbook of Southern Tier Technology Sponsored by Endicott Branch - Partners Trust Bank, The Gannett Foundation, Hyde Charitable Trust, Johnson City Senior Center, Virginia & Conrad Klee Foundation, Stephen David Ross Fund for University & Community Projects at Binghamton University, Visions Federal Credit Union

  24. Saving Your Stuff Saving Stuff (2005) Don Williams & Louisa Jaggar New York: Fireside

  25. Adhesives Less is more - nothing is best

  26. For more information or to volunteer, contact Susan Sherwood at 607-773-0092 director@ctandi.org Thank you.

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