Du Mont Laboratories Records 1930-1960 (bulk 1945-1960)

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Du Mont Laboratories Records 1930-1960 (bulk 1945-1960)

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Firm organized by Allen B. Du Mont in 1935 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. General correspondence, administrative files, interoffice correspondence, financial records, sales and advertising files, television and government hearing material, and miscellaneous records relating chiefly to the development and commercial use of the television cathode ray tube. Includes personal papers of founder Allen B. Du Mont.

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6357511

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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Taylor, Herbert E., Jr.

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Sarlin, Irving

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Marx, Ernest A.

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Poppele, Jack

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Radio engineer. From the description of Reminiscences of Jack Poppele : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481118 ...

Roberts, William A. (William Allerton), 1900-

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Du Mont Laboratories

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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 ...

Witting, C. J. (Chris James), 1915-2005

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Du Mont, Allen B. (Allen Balcom), 1901-1965

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Du Mont was an electrical engineer and television pioneer who worked for the Westinghouse Lamp Company, 1924-1928, and the DeForest Radio Company, 1928-1931, before establishing his own firm, Du Mont Laboratories Inc., to manufacture cathode ray tubes. The company began the production and sales of television receivers in the United States in 1937. After World War II, Du Mont was unable to compete effectively with other manufacturers. The company was sold to Fairchild in 1960 and Du Mont became a...

Cramer, Leonard Frederick, 1910-1987

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Ware, Paul, 1893-1970

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Goldsmith, Thomas T. (Thomas Toliver), 1910-2009

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Physicist, electrical engineer, and television pioneer. From the description of Papers, 1914-1991 (bulk 1956-1966). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70937628 From the description of Papers of Thomas T. Goldsmith, 1914-1991 (bulk 1956-1966). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 74984769 Biographical Note 1910, Jan. 9 Born, Greenville, S.C. ...

Steadman, Albert

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