Talk:DuMont Laboratories

Re: External link

To bad the pix of the television is not better. The name on the television is difficult if not impossible to read.1archie99 (talk) 21:35, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Color television - deleted text

I deleted the following unreferenced, and misleading text:

In the late 1950s, the Dumont laboratory, now owned by Fairchild, developed the original Sony Trinitron color picture tube, under a subcontract.

The cited reference (Weinstein, p. 11) says nothing about this assertion. Fairchild did not acquire Dumont Labs until 1960. (See Weinstein, p. 38.) Dumont Labs did do some early R&D on color television in the late 1940s and early 1950s, in particular their "Color-Sync Teletron" picture tube, around 1954. Also in play around that time was the "Chromatron" color picture tube, invented by physicist and Nobel laureate Ernest Lawrence in the early 1950s. (This is not mentioned on the current WP page about Lawrence, but appears in some other sources.) Dr. Lawrence may have worked for or collaborated with Dumont, but I haven't seen any source stating this. According to some sources, the Chromatron product design was further developed by Thomas Electronics and Paramount Pictures Corp. later in the 1950s. (See the "Early Television Museum" site at http://www.earlytelevision.org/chromatron.html). Apparently Dumont was licensed to manufacture Chromatron tubes and/or receivers in the late 50s. That subject needs further research and references. Sony briefly manufactured the Chromatron in 1965-66, but then abandoned the technology in favor of the newer Trinitron system. Caseyjonz (talk) 03:52, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing this, Casey. I don't have time to go through this article thoroughly, but I hope to, some day soon. Firsfron of Ronchester 05:14, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Robert Noyce

I'm being challenged on the statement regarding Robert Noyce in the History section. Can someone please provide a reference for this factoid? Or, maybe mark it as "Citation Needed?" (I do not doubt the correctness of this statement; just want a reference.) ( There's no mention of Dumont in Noyce's Wikipedia entry. ) JohnRRuth (talk) 17:06, 24 November 2022 (UTC)