Drunkometer
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Submitted by Wine Reviews from the Wine School
by Beth Case
Wired magazine has published a short history of the Drunkometer, the forerunner to the Breathalyzer. It was created in 1938 by Dr. Rolla N. Harger, a biochemist at Indiana University. Harger’s Drunkometer - a balloon and a few chemicals - was simple in its method and useful insofar as it caught drunkards driving and got them off the road. Indiana apparently didn’t much like its populus liquored up - it was a lab tech with the Indiana State po-po who invented the Breathalyzer in 1954.
