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incorporated 1951
Bowmar Instrument Corporation began as a household wager: the Seventh Circuit's findings of fact in Dixon v. White, decided 28 January 1964, set the founding down as a court record. In 1951 Edward A. White — a graduate engineer, twenty-four years old in 1952, formerly head of Farnsworth Television's electromechanical section and before that a Harvard research assistant, then employed by the Farnsworth-Capehart company in Fort Wayne — conceived the instrument company and worked without a cash salary after its incorporation. Joan White, daughter of John M. Dixon, worked for a Fort Wayne newspaper to carry the household's living expenses, did clerical work at Bowmar, and "at times operated punch presses and lathes"; the couple borrowed against their furniture. What Bowmar became — the calculator years and the rest — belongs to the Business and Inventors sections.
Sources:
- Dixon v. White, 327 F.2d 434 (7th Cir., 28 January 1964) — the court's findings on the 1951 founding and the Whites' respective parts in it, as carried in Businesses ("Bowmar Instrument Corporation").