This is the August 1917 issue of Electrical Experimenter. The cover story is “Blinding the Submarine” by Hugo Gernsback. Also included is an interview with Nikola Tesla entitled “Tesla’s Views on Electricity and the War” about eliminating the threat of enemy submarines, an article about women radio operators helping in the War effort, another about lightning rods, and a short story.
Contents of this Issue:
- Editorial: The Submarine War (H. Gernsback)
- Tesla’s Views on Electricity and the War (H. Winfield Secor)
- Electric Submarine Forts to Destroy Submarines
- Putting the Ocean Waves to Work (Charles W. Geiger)
- Blinding the Submarine (H. Gernsback)
- Thunder-Storms and Lightning Rods (Terrell Croft)
- Women Radio Operators To Aid Uncle Sam
- An Electrical Miniature Village de Luxe
- Unique Electrical Apparatus Reads the Mind
- The Radio Bomb (C.M. Adams)
- Dionic Water Tester Operates by Electricity
- “Perpetual Motion”
- Experimental Physics: Lesson 6: Newton’s Laws (John J. Furia)
- The Radio League of America: Mr. Amateur, This Means You
- Radio Department: Bell Telephone Engineers in U.S. Signal Reserve Corps
- The Amateur and Experimental Radio Research: Part II–Suggestions for Research Work (Raymond Francis Yates)
- Details of a 20,000 Meter Undamped Radio Receiver (Wm. Burnett, Jr.)
- The Constructor: “Bats” (Thomas Reed)
- An Ingenious Battery Night Lamp
- An Electrolytic Interrupter for Low Voltages (C.A. Oldroyd)
- A Hand-Feed Arc for the Experimenter
- How To Make It
- Experimental Chemistry: Fifteenth Lesson: Nitric Acid
- Wrinkles Recipes Formulas (S. Gernsback)
- With the Amateurs
- Question Box
- Latest Patents
- Phoney Patents
- Patent Advice (H. Gernsback)
- Scientific Exchange Columns
- Opportunity Exchange
Publisher: Experimenter Publishing Company, Inc.
Editor: Hugo Gernsback
Issue: Volume 5: Number 4; Whole No. 52; August 1917
Pages: 64
Size: 9″ x 12″
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