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The checklist names its exemplars — Alice Hamilton, who founded a field; Gertrude Muller of the child-safety line; Ethel Mossman Jacobs, co-inventor — and all three are Fort Wayne's, boundary-printed in one line as the form's proof that the record can hold women whole when the grants carry them. Mishawaka's own run of the search produces the harder record. The 216 grants and the annex were read for women's names: no woman is named as an inventor anywhere in the two inventors files — the roster runs on men's names and on initials. Spot checks in Google Patents against the roster's identifiable Mishawaka surnames returned no woman grantee the roster had missed. And the entry prints the record's own limit beside the result, because it governs what the result can mean: a large share of the roster's grants stand under initials alone, and initials cannot be sexed from the patent record — a woman patenting as the era's custom often required, under initials or a husband's or employer's name, is invisible to exactly the instrument this section is built on. The result therefore prints in two parts, both true: in the named record, Mishawaka's women inventors number zero, and no woman will be invented into the roster to mend it; and the instrument that produced the zero is known to undercount women by design, which is stated so the zero weighs what it should. The settling records are named for any hand that would carry the search further: the full-text patent search by assignee against the city's firms, and the firms' own employment records, in which the women of the drafting rooms would stand under their own names at last.