The Boyhood of an Inventor - Early Television Foundation

motion, and the presentation of them by an exhibit
ing apparatus to the eye of the spectator in such
rapid sequence as to blend them together and give
the effect of a single picture in which the objects
are moving, had been accomplished long before Mr.
Edison entered the field."
This decision set the infant industry free to grow
as its merit as a public entertainer might warrant,
ultimately to become the most widely accepted
source of group entertainment ever known. To this
"dumb" show, speech, music and appropriate sounds
were later added, and often in all the gorgeous colors
of nature. Many attempts were made to introduce
depth, i.e., stereoscopic relief, in the picture, but to
date no publicly-acceptable method has been found.
Within a few months, after taking over the re
sponsibility of financing a home, Mr. Jenkins began
the consideration of a more sanitary container for
the delivery of milk to families. The glass bottle
had, by that time, entirely superseded the milk-can
and hand-dipper to fill the pitcher or pan left on the
doorstep by the housewife the night before. But
the glass bottle was often used for such unsanitary
purposes as to
cause Health
Bureau Officials
heartily to en
courage the trial
of the proposed
new single -serv
ice container. As
finally designed
the new "bottle"
consisted of a
wound
spirally
cylindrical box
of paraffined pa
per, with fixed
bottom,
slip-cover
and
top.
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