JENKINS, CHARLES FRANCIS: 1867-1934.
Son of Amasa Milton and Mary Ann Thomas Jenkins, Charles Francis Jenkins was born on Aug. 22, 1867.
page: 167[View Page 167]He was educated in the Fountain City, Ind., schools, the Spiceland (Ind.) Academy and was a student at Earlham College, which in 1928 granted him the honorary Sc.D. degree in recognition of his achievements as an inventor.
He married Grace Love of Darlington, Md., on Jan. 30, 1902, and spent most of his adult life in the East, working mostly in the fields of motion pictures, radio and television.
Information from the Richmond Public Library.
- Picture Ribbons, Exposition of the Methods and Apparatus
Employed in the Manufacture of the Picture Ribbons Used in the Projecting
Lanterns to Give the Appearance of Objects in Motion.
Washington, D. C., 1897.
- Animated Pictures; an Exposition of the Historical
Development of Chronophotography, Its Present Scientific Applications and
Future Possibilities. Washington, D. C., 1898.
- Handbook for Motion Picture and Stereoptican
Operators (withOscar B. Depue). Washington, D. C., 1908.
- Motion Pictures in Teaching. Washington, D.
C., 1916.
- Vision by Radio, Radio Photographs, Radio Photograms.
Washington, D.C., 1925.
- Radio Movies, Radiovision, Television.
Washington, D. G., 1929.
- The Boyhood of an Inventor. Washington, D.
C., 1931.
