Allen B. DuMont

Allen B. DuMont (born January 29, 1901 in Brooklyn , † November 14, 1965 , buried in Montclair , New Jersey ) was an American electrical engineer .

After graduating from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy , New York , in 1924 , he started at the Westinghouse Lamp Company in Bloomfield , New Jersey, where he increased the production of radio tubes a hundredfold, for which he received the first Westinghouse Award . In 1928, he was by Lee De Forest committed, where he met with mechanical television by Charles Francis Jenkins met. Unsuccessful in his improvements, Forsest founded DuMont Laboratories in Cedar Grove , New Jersey, in 1931 to build its cathode ray tubes (CRT).

When he presented a ship finder to the US Army Signal Corps in 1932 , they asked him not to patent it and to keep it secret. So his radar was not known.

During World War II , he built giant CRTs for the Manhattan Project .

From June 1938 he produced the first television model 180 television and in 1946 he founded the DuMont Television Network , which he sold to John Kluge in 1956 due to lack of profitability . After developing a precursor to the Trinitron tube in the late 1950s , he also sold his production facility to Emerson Radio in 1960 .