Television: Seeing by Electricity
Television: Seeing by Electricity
This chapter focuses on C. Francis Jenkins' television inventions, including the electronic television. Historians consider Jenkins as the American inventor of mechanical television and often portray him as something of a failure because by the early 1930s, his ideas were purchased by competitive corporate powers and then overtaken with the far-better Farnsworth and Zworykin electronic scanning techniques. However, Jenkins' fundamental contributions in television cannot be simply ignored. This chapter begins with an overview of Jenkins' experimental television, followed by a discussion of his various ideas such as the “telectroscope” and optical electrical television. It then takes a look at the Jenkins Laboratories, Discrola Inc., and the Radio Pictures Corporation. It also recounts Jenkins' demonstration of how radio movies could be transmitted and received before concluding with an assessment of Jenkins' collaboration with the American Radio Relay League in television-related initiatives.
Keywords: television inventions, C. Francis Jenkins, electronic television, experimental television, telectroscope, Jenkins Laboratories, radio movies, radio, American Radio Relay League
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