New Powerful Radio Station To Begin Broadcasting Motion Pictures. Located ten miles outside of Washington, D.C. near Silver Spring, Maryland. The new television transmitting station of C. Francis Jenkins begins broadcasting motion pictures by radio on Monday night. This photo shows the motion picture projecting machine, the scanning disk, and radio amplifier, the radio transmitter, located in an adjoining room, is a powerful sending set, capable of covering the Eastern United States with radio pictures. The new station is housed in a bungalow. R. P. Battle, a member of the technical staff, is shown in the picture. July 20 1929.
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