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 the _Bulletin_, and in the _Washington 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. See _Visitor’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 in _Boston 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.
[Illustration:
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.
]
[Illustration:
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.
]
[Illustration:
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.”
]
[Illustration: 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_]