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unusual facts about Allen B. DuMont



Alan Wilson

Allen B. Wilson (1824–1888), American inventor of the sewing machine shuttle

Allen B. Kanavel

Allen B. Kanavel (1874, Sedgwick, Kansas – 1938 Pasadena, California) was an American surgeon remembered for describing Kanavel's sign.

Allen B. Wilson

Before the end of the year, Nathaniel Wheeler, of the firm of Warren, Wheeler & Woodruff, of Watertown, Connecticut, saw one of the machines in New York city, contracted with E. Lee & Co. to make 500, and induced Wilson to remove to Watertown to superintend the work.

He was born at Willet, Cortland county, N.Y., October 18, 1834 the son of a wheelwright.

Louis B. Butler

NPR commented on the Senate's reluctance to confirm Butler in an August 4, 2011 article, stating that "Some of the longest waiting nominees, Louis Butler of Wisconsin, Charles Bernard Day of Maryland and Edward Dumont of Washington happen to be black or openly gay".

Magic eye tube

The "magic eye" vacuum tube for tuning radio receivers was invented in 1932 by Dr. Allen B. DuMont (who spent most of the 1930s improving the lifetime of cathode ray tubes, and ultimately formed the DuMont Television Network).

Vibrating shuttle

It was actually invented by Allen B. Wilson in 1850, just one year before he would invent the rotary hook design that would eventually prevail over all other lockstitch bobbin driver designs.


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