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Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Prologue 1 1 Jenkins’ Heritage and Youth 3 2 Early Film Experiments 15 3 A Lifetime of Struggle 23 4 Jenkins’ Motion Pictures 51 5 Founding the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers 69 6 Visionary Entrepreneur 77 7 RadioVision: The Genesis and Promotion 95 8 Radio Pictures: Going Operational 107 9 Television: Seeing by Electricity 121 10 The Eyes of Radio 135 11 The Jenkins Television Corporation 149 12 American Visionary 169 LC Epilogue 181 Appendix A U.S. Patents Issued to C. Francis Jenkins 185 Appendix B Selected Jenkins Patents Referenced in Modern Patent Applications 193 Notes 195 Bibliography 265 Index 279 ...

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