1924. Apparatus bought and used experimentally by U. S. Post Office Department, on night-flying section, Air Mail route, New York-San Francisco, first message night of December 3, 1924. See James W. Robinson’s telegram, December 15, 1924.
1925. Transmits Motion Pictures by Radio from standard motion picture film to be looked at directly on a small motion picture screen in the distant radio receiving set; Tuesday, March 31, 1925. S.L.A., F.M.A., J.N.O., J.W.R., T.P.D.
This machine is the prototype of the motion picture projector in universal use the world over, the result of experimentation begun by Mr. Jenkins in 1890; the machine finished and publicly exhibited in 1893 and 1894. Later shown before the Franklin Institute, and thereafter in the U. S. National Museum. When it has completed its service in the Laboratory office, the Franklin Institute Museum will be the final depository.
The accompanying cuts show the Elliott Cresson Gold Medal, awarded by the Franklin Institute, of Philadelphia, for a machine exhibited before the Institute in 1895 by Mr. C. Francis Jenkins.
Later, in making a second award, that of the John Scott Medal, “in recognition of the value of this invention,” the Institute Committee said: “Eighteen years ago the applicant exhibited a commercial motion picture projecting machine which he termed the ‘Plantoscope.’ This was recognized by the Institute and subsequently proved to be the first successful form of projecting machine for the production of life-size motion pictures from a narrow strip of film containing successive phases of motion.”
