Sherman Fairchild started over 70 companies from photography to aviation to obviously semiconductors. Their cameras were used for some of the Apollo missions as well.

I always enjoy running across something related to him. He seemed to have his fingers in a lot of very important pies and surprised he doesn't get mentioned more.

Apparently yes! This seems to be the missing link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Camera_and_Instrumen...

Also related to the Fairchild 660 compressor, a legendary piece of audio recording equipment.