Charles francis jenkins wife
My wife, Robin Vierbuchen Sproul, inherited many miscellaneous items once belonging to extraordinary inventor and visionary Charles Francis Jenkins.
Robin grew up in this Washington, DC area and I've lived here ever since we married in 1982. I spent my whole adult working life on the engineering staff at WMAL, the final 15 years or so as chief engineer. Robin was the ABC News Washington Bureau Chief for 21 years. Jenkins was her great uncle.
We've especially enjoyed defending the Jenkins legacy over the years, since he lived nearby on 16th Street NW, had his corporate office downtown on Connecticut Avenue NW and his experimental transmitter site was over in Wheaton, Maryland. The transmitter house still stands, protected for its historic significance.
The items coming your way are two clumps of documents. The smaller one is a tattered binder with an assortment of loose documents. The larger, sturdier notebook appears to be the Jenkins scrapbook where he taped all manner of things he found interesting.
When Charles Francis Jenkins was born on 17 December 1865, in Wrightstown Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Howard Malcolm Jenkins, was 23 and his mother, Mary Anna Atkinson, was 22. He married Maria Galloway Cope on 4 February 1890, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States for about 5 years and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1951. He died on 3 July 1951, at the age of 85, and was buried in Upper Dublin Friends Burial Ground, Upper Dublin Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States.
THE PIONEER OF TELEVISION AND RADIO.
JENKINS, CHARLES FRANCIS & JENKINS, GRACE LOVE. Archive of material relating to C. Francis Jenkins, compiled by his wife, Grace Love Jenkins. 6 folio scrapbooks, comprising personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, advertisements, and photographs, c. 1900-1935. American cinema pioneer For other people with similar names, see Charles Jenkins. Charles Francis Jenkins Frontispiece of Animated Pictures, 1898 Dayton, Ohio, U.S. Washington, D.C., U.S. 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, though he used mechanical rather than electronic technologies. His businesses included Charles Jenkins Laboratories and Jenkins Television Corporation (the corporation being founded in 1928, the year the Laboratories were granted the first commercial television license in the United States). Over 400 patents were issued to Jenkins, many for his inventions related to motion pictures and television . Jenkins was born in Dayton, Ohio, grew up near Richmond, Indiana, where he went to school and went to Washington, D.C. in 1890, where he worked as a stenographer. Jenkins started experimenting with motion pictures in 1891, and eventually quit his job and concentrated fully on the development of his own movie projector, the Phantoscope. As the Richmond Telegram reported on June 6, 1894, about his endeavors to show his parents, friends, and newsmen a gadget he had been working on for two years: a "motion picture projecting box". They gathered at Jenkins' cousin's jewelry store in downtown Richmond and viewed what may have been the first live-action film screening in front of an audience. The motion picture was of vaude
Large archive of material apparently collected by Grace Jenkins, wife of the inventor and television pioneer C. Francis Jenkins. The six folio volumes contain a fascinating array of promotional and sales literature of the Jenkins laboratories as well as newsletters, newspaper clippings, and photographs depicting Jenkins' inventions. Some amount of material also relates to the Jenkins' personal life, particularly the large amount of correspondence addressed to Mrs. Jenkins (and some to Francis). Jenkins was "an American original for whom inventing was a natural talent, a visionary working on the leading edge of technical discovery in film and television. He was the only inventor present at the inception of both large-screen motion-picture projection and television. A generation later, he was the only American actively working on television. He was primarily a film a television pioneer, but he also held multiple patents for a variety of creations..." (Godfrey, C. Francis Jenkins, Pioneer of Film and Television, p ix). Jenkins spearheaded American efforts to transmit moving pictures, alongside later contributors such as John Logie Baird and Philo Taylor Farnsworth. In competition with Baird, Jenkins was the leading television vendor until the late 1920s, when his company was virtually wiped out in the stock market crash of 1929. The photographs here are of particular interest, depicting the Jenkins television camera in use in cinematography; family portraits; a 'Machine built for Metropolitan Museum of Natural History for continuous exhibition of motion picture film;" early prototypes of changeable lighted signs; 18 photographs of early vehicles ("Steam Charles Francis Jenkins
Born (1867-08-22)August 22, 1867 Died June 6, 1934(1934-06-06) (aged 66) Resting place Rock Creek Cemetery
Washington, D.C., U.S.Education Bliss Electrical School Occupation Engineer Engineering career Projects Over 400 patents related to a variety of inventions Significant advance Motion picture projector and television Awards Elliott Cresson Medal (1897)
John Scott Medal (1913)Motion pictures