Charles Jenkins Laboratories was founded in by Charles Francis Jenkins, developer of the Phantoscope,[1] the first commercial tv station W3XK and the first commercial television company.
Charles Francis Jenkins in 1890 moved to Washington D.C. to work as an Steganographer, then he experimented with motion pictures and in 1890 developed a movie projector called the Phantoscope, the laboratory was created years after it.
In 1928 Charles Jenkins was granted the first commercial television license in the United States and In July 2, 1928 Jenkins Television Corporation started to operate W3XK, the first TV station.
[2] first aired from Jenkins Labs in Washington and from 1929 on from Wheaton, Maryland, five nights a week.
Within months, the De Forest company went bankrupt and the assets were bought by RCA stopping all work on electromechanical television.