Du Mont Laboratories records, 1930-1960

Organizational History and Biographical Note

Date	Event
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.

Date	Event
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.