However, one could make a strong argument that Daytonian Charles Francis Jenkins deserves much of the credit. Jenkins was issued more than 400 patents during his career, many of them related to ...

WASHINGTON—One of Charles Francis Jenkins’ many accomplishments—the 1925 wireless transmission of moving images between the U.S. Navy’s research facility in Anacostia, Maryland, and Jenkins’s DuPont ...

Number 1519 Connecticut Avenue lies just north of Dupont Circle, just over a 20-minute walk from the White House in Washington DC. In 1921, the inventor Charles Francis Jenkins set up his ...

Saint was born on July 4, 1924, meaning she turned 101 years old this Friday. She became a centenarian this time last year — ...

On February 25, 1928, Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, DC, became the first holder of a US television license. W3XK, the first TV station, began broadcasting from Jenkins Labs later that ...

1928: W3XK, the first American TV station, begins broadcasting from suburban Washington, D.C. The station was an outgrowth of the work done by Charles Francis Jenkins in devising a way to transmit ...

Hiotis said he hopes D.C. will share his vision of designating the new plaza as “Charles Francis Jenkins Plaza,” establishing a clear and permanent link between the site and its historical ...

Left: Charles Francis Jenkins, the inventor of the motion picture projector, is seen here in 1928. Jenkins was born 148 years ago on Aug. 22. Photo by Underwood & Underwood from the Library of ...

Charles Francis Jenkins and John Logie Baird both wowed public audiences with their new image-transmitting devices in 1925. ... calling Jenkins the “father of television”.