Du Mont Laboratories

Organized in 1935 by Allen B. Du Mont; devoted to electronic television and communications engineering; television receiver and manufacturing business sold to Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation in 1958; remainder of the firm merged with Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation in 1960.

From the description of Records of Du Mont Laboratories, 1930-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78470721

Organizational History and Biographical Note

Du Mont Laboratories

• 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

• 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.

From the guide to the Du Mont Laboratories Records, 1930-1960, (bulk 1945-1960), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)