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JENKINS, CHARLES FRANCIS. 1867-1934.
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JENKINS, CHARLES FRANCIS. 1867-1934.
1.Vision by Radio. Radio Photographs. Radio Photograms. Washington, D.C.: [Jenkins Laboratories, Inc., 1925]. 8vo, 140 pp. Blue publisher's cloth lettered in gilt. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed on flyleaf "Chas E L Wingate/ with Kindest Regards/ C. Francis Jenkins 5/7/25". Publisher's presentation slip laid in.
2. Radiomovies. Radiovision. Television. [Washington, D.C.: Jenkins Laboratories, Inc., 1929]. 8vo. 143 pp. Blue publisher's cloth lettered in gilt. FIRST EDITION.
3. The Boyhood of an Inventor. Washington, D.C.: [C. Francis Jenkins], 1931. 8vo. 273 pp. Brown publisher's cloth, decorated in blind. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed on flyleaf "To Mr Kenneth Schooley/ In appreciation of / his interest/ 2/22/32/ C Fr Jenkins."
4. "Men Who Made Radio — C. Francis Jenkins" In: Radio-Craft for the Professional Serviceman Radiotrician, vol 1, no 5, November, 1929. Folio. 193-240 pp. Stapled into original illustrated wrappers.
5. "Pioneers of Television — Charles Francis Jenkins", In: SMPTE Journal, vol 95, no 2, February 1986. Folio. 203-274 pp. Stapled into original wrappers.
C. Francis Jenkins was an American film and television pioneer who held more than 400 patents. He began experimenting with motion pictures in 1891; and he was responsible for inventing the motion picture projector and organized the very first "movie" show of a reeled film with electric light before an audience in 1894. It was also the first colored movie, one that Jenkins carefully hand colored. His Phantoscope eventually evolved into Thomas A. Edison's Vitascope. Television was his next project. He first wrote about transmitting pictures by radio in 1913, but it was not until 1925 that he successfully broadcast synchronized pictures and sound by wire. The Jenkins Television Corporation obtained the first commercial television license in the United States and opened the first television broadcasting station in the United States to transmit "Radiomovies" in 1928. By the next year it was broadcasting five days a week. When the company folded in 1932, its assets were purchased by Lee DeForest Radio Corporation, but they went bankrupt a few months later and RCA bought them out. Today the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences honors individuals who have made lasting contributions to television technology and engineering with the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award.
2. Radiomovies. Radiovision. Television. [Washington, D.C.: Jenkins Laboratories, Inc., 1929]. 8vo. 143 pp. Blue publisher's cloth lettered in gilt. FIRST EDITION.
3. The Boyhood of an Inventor. Washington, D.C.: [C. Francis Jenkins], 1931. 8vo. 273 pp. Brown publisher's cloth, decorated in blind. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed on flyleaf "To Mr Kenneth Schooley/ In appreciation of / his interest/ 2/22/32/ C Fr Jenkins."
4. "Men Who Made Radio — C. Francis Jenkins" In: Radio-Craft for the Professional Serviceman Radiotrician, vol 1, no 5, November, 1929. Folio. 193-240 pp. Stapled into original illustrated wrappers.
5. "Pioneers of Television — Charles Francis Jenkins", In: SMPTE Journal, vol 95, no 2, February 1986. Folio. 203-274 pp. Stapled into original wrappers.
C. Francis Jenkins was an American film and television pioneer who held more than 400 patents. He began experimenting with motion pictures in 1891; and he was responsible for inventing the motion picture projector and organized the very first "movie" show of a reeled film with electric light before an audience in 1894. It was also the first colored movie, one that Jenkins carefully hand colored. His Phantoscope eventually evolved into Thomas A. Edison's Vitascope. Television was his next project. He first wrote about transmitting pictures by radio in 1913, but it was not until 1925 that he successfully broadcast synchronized pictures and sound by wire. The Jenkins Television Corporation obtained the first commercial television license in the United States and opened the first television broadcasting station in the United States to transmit "Radiomovies" in 1928. By the next year it was broadcasting five days a week. When the company folded in 1932, its assets were purchased by Lee DeForest Radio Corporation, but they went bankrupt a few months later and RCA bought them out. Today the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences honors individuals who have made lasting contributions to television technology and engineering with the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award.