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    Charles Francis Jenkins (August 22, 1867 – June 6, 1934) was an American engineer who was a pioneer of early cinema and one of the inventors of television...
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  • Charles Jenkins Laboratories was founded in by Charles Francis Jenkins, developer of the Phantoscope, the first commercial tv station W3XK and the first...
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  • shipbuilder Charles Jenkins Sr. (born 1934), former American athlete Charlie Jenkins (Australian rules footballer) (1878–19??) Charles Jenkins (American...
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    projector first demonstrated in 1895 by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. They had made modifications to Jenkins' patented Phantoscope, which cast images...
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    film projection machine, a creation of Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. In the early 1890s, Jenkins began creating the projector. He later met...
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  • Charles Francis Jenkins (17 December 1865 – 1951) was an American Quaker and historian. Jenkins was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on 17 December 1865...
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  • shows, and launches of some television channels and networks 1922: Charles Francis Jenkins' first public demonstration of television principles. A set of...
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    television license in the United States. Using the call sign W3XK, Charles Francis Jenkins began broadcasting from his home at the corner of Windham Lane...
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    Sailor elected the first mayor. Early cinema and television pioneer Charles Francis Jenkins grew up on a farm north of Richmond, where he began inventing useful...
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    II curtailed their business in Britain. An American inventor, Charles Francis Jenkins, also pioneered the television. He published an article on "Motion...
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