International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation

"Incorporated and founded in 1920 by Sosthenes Behn and his brother Hernand Behn as a telephone and telegraph company, ITT expanded and established facilities both in the United States and throughout the world. The Fort Wayne, Indiana facility resulted when Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of electronic television, who had set up the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation, sold his company to ITT in 1949. The laboratories in Fort Wayne were responsible for developing new technical concepts, methods and designs of tubes, sensors and devices for application in industrial, government and commercial markets."