Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio. It is the county seat and largest city of Montgomery County. Dayton is situated within the Miami Valley region of Ohio, just north of the Cincinnati metropolitan area. Dayton has received the All-America City Award three times.

Dayton metropolitan area, which includes the communities of Vandalia, Trotwood, Kettering, Centerville, Beavercreek, West Carrollton, Huber Heights, Troy, and Miamisburg, had a population of 843,577 as of the 2005 estimate. Dayton’s nine historic neighborhoods — Oregon District, Wright-Dunbar, Dayton View, Grafton Hill, McPherson Town, Webster Station, Huffman, St. Anne’s Hill, and South Park — feature mostly single-family houses and mansions in the Neoclassical form of architecture.

Dayton plays host to significant industrial, aerospace, and technological/engineering research activity and is known for the many technical innovations and inventions developed there. The city was the home of the Wright brothers, poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, and entrepreneur John H. Patterson. The Dayton area is home to several major international, national, and regional corporations, including NCR, Reynolds & Reynolds, Liberty Bank, Standard Register, WorkflowOne (formally Relizon), Huffy Bicycles, LexisNexis, and Mead prior to becoming MeadWestvaco.

The city has a rich heritage of inventions and innovations, with more patents per capita than any other city in the nation. Some of these inventions include the cash register, the stepladder, microfiche, waterproof cellophane, pop top beverage cans, the movie projector, space food, parking meters, the aircraft supercharger, the automobile self-starter, gas masks, and the parachute.

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