Allen B. DuMont
Allen B. DuMont was born on January 29, 1901. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Allen B. DuMont
Allen Balcom DuMont (; January 29, 1901 – November 14, 1965) was an American electronics engineer, scientist, and inventor who improved the cathode-ray tube in 1931 for use in television receivers. Seven years later he manufactured and sold the first commercially practical television set to the public. In June 1938, his Model 180 television receiver was the first all-electronic television set sold to the public, a few months prior to RCA's first TV set in April 1939. In 1946, DuMont founded the first television network to be licensed, the DuMont Television Network, by linking station WABD…