Engineering Report

Richard G. Streeter

In 1916, ten concerned engineers met in Washington, D.C., and took the first steps to give birth to an idea which had been developed by three of them. The previous summer, on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, C. Francis Jenkins, already a noted pioneer in motion-picture technology, E. K. Gillett, and Nat I. Brown had conceived the idea of a new engineering society that would serve the growing motion-picture industry.

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Published
1987-04
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J03174