The famous-name test — no famous inventor's chapter belongs to this ground

BY-NAME SEARCH, BIOGRAPHICAL ROLLS + PATENT RECORD · NEGATIVE

Indiana's inventor fame is real and it is all seated somewhere else; this row ran the names against this ground by birth, raising and residence, and prints the negative with the shelves named. Philo T. Farnsworth, electronic television's inventor (U.S. television-system patent filed 7 January 1927, priority awarded 1935): born 19 August 1906 in Beaver County, Utah; his Indiana chapter is the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation at Fort Wayne, 1938/39–1949, with his home at Fort Wayne 1948–1967. No Granger tie of any kind was found — his chapter is Fort Wayne's, at Fort Wayne's size, in Fort Wayne's build. Robert F. Borkenstein, inventor of the Breathalyzer: born at Fort Wayne on 31 August 1912, developed the device in 1954 at the Indiana State Police laboratory and in his Indianapolis home, patented 1958, and chaired Indiana University's Department of Police Administration at Bloomington from 1958 — Fort Wayne, Indianapolis and Bloomington divide his life; Granger is nowhere in it. His predecessor Rolla N. Harger, whose Drunkometer was patented in 1936, worked at the IU medical school in Indianapolis. Elwood Haynes of Kokomo — stainless steel patented 1919, the Stellite alloys, the 1894 Pioneer automobile — was born at Portland, Indiana, and lived and worked at Kokomo; no tie here. The register's remaining floor names answer the same way: the Bowmar Brain is an Indianapolis story, Philo Farnsworth's the Fort Wayne one already given, and the South Bend industrial inventors of the Bendix and Studebaker lines are South Bend's own, one city line away and never resident on this ground in any record reached. Searches were run by name against the Indiana Historical Bureau's marker reviews and biographical record and against the patent record's residence fields. Result, printed whole: no inventor of national fame was born, raised or resident in the Granger designated place, and this section carries no famous-name chapter. The nearest thing to fame the ground honestly holds is a birth in the fame band of business, not invention — Hub Beardsley of Miles Laboratories, carried in the medicine article below at its true size.

Sources:

1. Indiana Historical Bureau marker review 02.1992.1 (Farnsworth — Utah birth, 1927 filing, Fort Wayne corporation and home dates).
2. Indiana University Honors & Awards, "Drunkometer and Breathalyzer" (Harger patent 1936; Borkenstein developed the Breathalyzer 1954, patented 1958; Bloomington chair 1958); Journal of Forensic Sciences obituary, Robert F. Borkenstein 1912–2002 (born Fort Wayne, 31 August 1912).
3. Elwood Haynes record — born Portland, Indiana, 14 October 1857; Kokomo residence and work; stainless-steel patent 1919; Stellite — biographical entries as searched November 2026.