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IN NATURE of April 27, p. 637, a notice appeared of a book by Mr. C. Francis Jenkins, of Dayton, Ohio, entitled “Radiomovies, Radiovision, Television”. With some difficulty I have obtained a copy of this book from America, and find in it, in a picture which appears to be on page 74 (though no paging is given), a description copied from a journal of July 25, 1894, ascribing to C. Francis Jenkins an apparatus for transmitting pictures by electricity, under the name of the Jenkins' Phantoscope. This is identical in all essentials with the method of television proposed by G. R. Carey, an American, and dated 1875 according to “La Television Electrique”, by A. Dauvillier, published much later, in 1928, by La Revue Generate de L'Electricite, of Paris; while an illustrated description of Carey's method also appears in a copy I possess of Design and Work for June 25, 1880.
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SWINTON, A. Television Inventions. Nature 123, 874 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123874c0
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