Ted De Boer

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Ted De Boer (1921 - 2004) was the Founder of the National Inventors Foundation (parent organization of the Inventors Assistance League), which is the first federally chartered non-profit organization for the purpose of educating the creative individual since the patent law was established over 200 years ago in 1790. He spent the last 30 years solving the problems of independent inventors and creative people.

Born on an Iowa farm in 1921, he attended Grand Rapids University, Calvin College, New York University and RCA Institutes. He worked at the United Nations when it was formed in San Francisco, CA, in 1945 with such greats as: Lord Halifax of England, Wellington Koo of China and Vyacheslav Molotov and Andrei Gromyko of Russia.

Famous inventors he worked with include Allen B. DuMont, father of the cathode ray tube (CRT). Ted worked in Mr. Dumont's laboratory where he was one of a team of four people who built the first 12" TV set. In 1944, during World War II, he built an oscilloscope to train military service personnel in electronics. He also worked with William P. (Bill) Lear on his aircraft auto-pilot and automatic radio-direction finder. Ted tracked satellites in the South Pacific and missile re-entry instrumentation in the Western Pacific on the Pacific Missile Range.

Ted De Boer was a member of the American Radio Relay League from which the Inventors Assistance League was developoed in its original concept.