Word: balcom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Allen Balcom Du Mont. 64, "father of television," an inventor and broadcasting pioneer who perfected the first commercially practical cathode-ray tube in 1931, thereupon attemoted to corner the new market with the first home TV sets (1938) and a network of three stations (in 1941), but was left far behind by better-financed RCA and CBS, eventually sold out and became a consultant to Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., often observing that he felt like Frankenstein beholding his monster; of complications from diabetes; in Manhattan...