Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Organizational History and Biographical Note
Du Mont Laboratories
Date | Event |
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1931 | Founded by Allen B. Du Mont |
1935 | Incorporation of Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories |
1938 | Began manufacturing televisions |
1946 | Formation of Du Mont Television Network |
1946 | Du Mont Television Network sold to John Kluge and renamed Metromedia |
1949 | World's largest television assembly plant, part of Du Mont Laboratories, dedicated in East Patterson, N.J. |
1958 | Television manufacturing division sold to Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corp. |
1960 | Research laboratory sold to Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. |
Allen B. Du Mont
Date | Event |
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1901, Jan. 29 | Born, Brooklyn, N.Y. |
1916-1924 | Worked summers as a licensed commercial radio operator on coastal and transatlantic ships |
1924 | B.A., electrical engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. |
1924-1928 | Engineer, Westinghouse Lamp Co., Bloomfield, N.J. |
1928-1931 | Employed by DeForest Radio Corp., Passaic, N.J., as chief engineer and director of research and experiment in the field of "sight and sound" broadcasting |
1931 | Organized a basement laboratory in his home in Upper Montclair, N.J., devoted to the development of a commercially practical cathode ray tube |
1935 | Incorporated Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories |
1937-1938 | Built and sold first television receivers |
1941 | Started experimental telecasting over W2XWV (later WABD), New York, N.Y. |
1943 | First president of Television Broadcasting Association |
1946 | Opened Wanamaker studios of station WABD, New York, N.Y. Established Du Mont Television Network with stations WABD, New York, and WTTG, Washington, D.C. |
1951 | Ranked first among America's most outstanding industrialists in radio and electronics in a poll conducted by Forbes Magazine |
1956-1960 | Chairman of the board, Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. |
1960-1961 | Group general manager, Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. |
1961-1965 | Senior technical consultant, Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. |
1965, Nov. 15 | Died, New York, N.Y. |