Du Mont Laboratories, Inc.
Du Mont Laboratories Inc. records, 1930-1960.
General correspondence, administrative files, inter-office correspondence, financial records, sales and advertising files, television files, hearing files (U.S. Senate, House, and Federal Communications Commission), and miscelllaneous papers of an electronic television and communications engineering corporation. The papers relate chiefly to the laboratory development and commercial use of the television cathode-ray tube. Correspondents include Leonard Frederick Cramer, Thomas Toliver Goldsmith, Jr., Austin Celestin Lescarboura, John R. Poppele, William Allerton Roberts, Elmer Louis Wheeler, and Chris James Witting.
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.
Cramer, Leonard Frederick, 1910-
Goldsmith, Thomas T. (Thomas Toliver), 1910-
Lescarboura, Austin C. (Austin Celestin), 1891-
Poppele, John R., 1898-
Roberts, William Allerton, 1900-
Wheeler, Elmer, 1903-
Witting, Chris James, 1915-
Du Mont Laboratories, Inc.
Cathode ray tubes.
Electrical engineering
Engineering laboratories.
Television.
AIP-ICOS
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