Historical Sketch of Jenkins Radio Photography
1894. Jenkins publishes article on transmission of pictures electrically with illustration of proposed apparatus.—Electrical Engineer, July 25, 1894.
1913. Proposes another mechanism, for “Motion Pictures by Wireless.”—Motion Picture News, September 27, 1913.
1920. Reads paper on the Prismatic Ring, a new contribution to optical science (an essential element in transmission of radio pictures).—Transactions Society Motion Picture Engineers, Toronto Meeting, May, 1920.
1922. Sends first radio photograph; sent from a photograph, and received photographically; and predicts motion pictures by radio in the home.—Washington Evening Star, May 19, 1922.
1922. Sends photographs by telephone wire of American Telephone & Telegraph Company, through his desk telephone, from 1519 Connecticut Avenue (Washington) to Navy Radio Station, NOF, at Anacostia, D. C., and there broadcast. The signals were picked up and recorded on a photographic plate at 5502 Sixteenth Street N.W., Washington, D. C., in presence of Commander A. Hoyt Taylor, of the U. S. Navy, and J. C. Edgerton, of the Post Office; October 3, 1922.
1922. Makes official demonstration of his radio transmission of photographs for Navy officials December 12, 1922, in presence of Admirals S. S. Robison and H. J. Ziegemeier, Captain J. T. Tompkins, Commander S. C. Hooper, Lt. Commanders E. H. Loftin and H. P. LeClair; the report of which was later released for publication.—Washington Evening Star, January 14, 1923.
1923. Sends radio photographs of President Warren G. Harding, Secretary Herbert Hoover, Governor Gifford Pinchot, and others, from U. S. Navy Radio Station, NOF, Washington, to Evening Bulletin Building, Philadelphia, by courtesy of Robt. McLean, Jr., March 2, 1923.—Reproduced in theBulletin, and in theWashington Star, March 3, 1923.
1923. Makes his first laboratory demonstration of Radio Vision (the instantaneous reproduction on a small picture screen of a distant performer or a distant scene), and of Radio Movies (the transmission of pictures from a theatre screen to a small screen in the home), June 14, 1923. SeeVisitor’s Register.
1924. Makes his first hundred-line photograph, June 15, 1924, portraits of true photographic values in which no lines appear. Photographs of President Calvin Coolidge, Dr. J. S. Montgomery, Chaplain of the House, William Jennings Bryan, etc. See letters of congratulations from subjects of these photographic tests.
1924. Sends message, in Japanese characters, from Charge d’Affairs, I. Yoshida, of the Japanese Embassy, Washington, i.e., sending from the old Navy Station, NOF, to Amrad Station, WGI, Medford Hillside, Massachusetts; reported and reproduced inBoston Traveler, December 4, 1924.
1924. Apparatus bought and used experimentally by U. S. Post Office Department, on night-flying section, Air Mail route, New York-San Francisco, first message night of December 3, 1924. See James W. Robinson’s telegram, December 15, 1924.
1925. Transmits Motion Pictures by Radio from standard motion picture film to be looked at directly on a small motion picture screen in the distant radio receiving set; Tuesday, March 31, 1925. S.L.A., F.M.A., J.N.O., J.W.R., T.P.D.
This machine is the prototype of the motion picture projector in universal use the world over, the result of experimentation begun by Mr. Jenkins in 1890; the machine finished and publicly exhibited in 1893 and 1894. Later shown before the Franklin Institute, and thereafter in the U. S. National Museum. When it has completed its service in the Laboratory office, the Franklin Institute Museum will be the final depository.
This machine is the prototype of the motion picture projector in universal use the world over, the result of experimentation begun by Mr. Jenkins in 1890; the machine finished and publicly exhibited in 1893 and 1894. Later shown before the Franklin Institute, and thereafter in the U. S. National Museum. When it has completed its service in the Laboratory office, the Franklin Institute Museum will be the final depository.
This machine is the prototype of the motion picture projector in universal use the world over, the result of experimentation begun by Mr. Jenkins in 1890; the machine finished and publicly exhibited in 1893 and 1894. Later shown before the Franklin Institute, and thereafter in the U. S. National Museum. When it has completed its service in the Laboratory office, the Franklin Institute Museum will be the final depository.
The accompanying cuts show the Elliott Cresson Gold Medal, awarded by the Franklin Institute, of Philadelphia, for a machine exhibited before the Institute in 1895 by Mr. C. Francis Jenkins.
The accompanying cuts show the Elliott Cresson Gold Medal, awarded by the Franklin Institute, of Philadelphia, for a machine exhibited before the Institute in 1895 by Mr. C. Francis Jenkins.
The accompanying cuts show the Elliott Cresson Gold Medal, awarded by the Franklin Institute, of Philadelphia, for a machine exhibited before the Institute in 1895 by Mr. C. Francis Jenkins.
Later, in making a second award, that of the John Scott Medal, “in recognition of the value of this invention,” the Institute Committee said: “Eighteen years ago the applicant exhibited a commercial motion picture projecting machine which he termed the ‘Plantoscope.’ This was recognized by the Institute and subsequently proved to be the first successful form of projecting machine for the production of life-size motion pictures from a narrow strip of film containing successive phases of motion.”
Later, in making a second award, that of the John Scott Medal, “in recognition of the value of this invention,” the Institute Committee said: “Eighteen years ago the applicant exhibited a commercial motion picture projecting machine which he termed the ‘Plantoscope.’ This was recognized by the Institute and subsequently proved to be the first successful form of projecting machine for the production of life-size motion pictures from a narrow strip of film containing successive phases of motion.”
Later, in making a second award, that of the John Scott Medal, “in recognition of the value of this invention,” the Institute Committee said: “Eighteen years ago the applicant exhibited a commercial motion picture projecting machine which he termed the ‘Plantoscope.’ This was recognized by the Institute and subsequently proved to be the first successful form of projecting machine for the production of life-size motion pictures from a narrow strip of film containing successive phases of motion.”
ANNO DOMINI MDCCCCXXIV In recognition of services rendered to the screen by =C. Francis Jenkins——= as inventor of the motion picture projector—— =S=tory =W=orld =M=agazine of =H=ollywood, in a series of articles published in 1923–24 names =M=r. =J=enkins as one of— =T=he =T=en =G=reatest =F=igures in— =M=otion =P=ictures—=I=t now takes pleasure in making this formal acknowledgment of its judgment— =S=tory =W=orld——Jay Brien Chapman September _First_ _Editor_
American Projection Society INCORPORATED ABILITY PROGRESS SCIENCE MEMBERSHIP CERTIFICATE This is to certify that C. F. Jenkins having proved his fitness has been duly received into The American Projection Society Inc. as a Honorary Member, and is entitled to all rights and privileges as such. In Witness thereof the Executive Officers of the Chapter have hereunto affixed their signatures. President Secretary Treasurer Date June 12, 1924
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