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Electrical Experimenter (05:10) February 1918

Hugo Gernsback, editor

1918
"In the early days of the war it frequently happened that the French farmers would run their plows into unexploded shells buried a few feet in the ground, with oftentimes fatal results. One of the French army engineers thought of a novel electrical scheme for accurately locating these buried shells, thousands of which had landed in the fertile fields along the one-time firing line." His idea involved the application of an extra large size Hughes' balance, an instrument well known to every electrician."
This is the February 1918 issue of Electrical Experimenter. The cover art and feature story is “A Gyro-Electric Destroyer” by Hugo Gernsback. Also included is a fictional piece “How Jimmy Saved the Troop Train,” articles about constructing a damped and undamped receptor and a Wheatstone bridge, and an early metal detector used to look for unexploded WWI artillery shells.
Contents of this Issue:
  • Gravitation and Electricity (H. Gernsback)
  • New Orchestra Phonograph Plays 48 Records at Once
  • Why Not Aerial “Stepping Stones” from U.S. to Europe? (F.S. Winger)
  • Hughes’ Balance Locates Buried Shells
  • Thrill of Science in New Movies
  • A Gyro-Electric Destroyer (H. Gernsback)
  • “The Deluge”—The Show That Electricity Made Possible (George Holmes)
  • A New Electro-Magnetic Train Stop
  • Bossie Gets An Outdoor Bath
  • Telephone Switchboards of Yesterday
  • A New Selenium Cell (R.G. Morgan)
  • New Alternating Current Sounder
  • How Jimmy Saved the Troop Train (John T. Dwyer)
  • Experimental Physics Lesson 10: Photography (John J. Furia)
  • The Home-Treatment of Tuberculosis by High-Frequency Currents (Dr. Frederick Finch Strong)
  • Radio Department: How New York Police Use Radio
  • Storage Batteries for Electron Relays (Miller Reese Hutchison)
  • A Radio-Controlled “Tank” (Frank Coperman)
  • The How and Why of Radio Apparatus No. 6: Radio Receiving Tuners (H. Winfield Secor)
  • Detail Construction of a Damped and Undamped Wave Receptor (F. MacMurphy)
  • The Constructor: Experimental Mechanics Lesson II: The Lathe (Samuel Cohen)
  • High Frequency Phenomena and Experiments (Frederick von Lichtenow)
  • Amateurs! The “Smelloscope!” Your Nose Knows
  • The Construction of a Wheatstone Bridge (Thomas W. Benson)
  • How To Make a Medical Coil (E.F. Jaspers)
  • A Portable and Reliable Armature Test Set (Frank Huskinson)
  • A Printing Box for the Amateur Photographer
  • How To Make It
  • Wrinkles Recipes & Formulas (S. Gernsback)
  • Experimental Chemistry Lesson 21: Electro Chemistry Laws and Conditions (Albert W. Wilsdon)
  • With the Amateurs
  • Latest Patents
  • Phoney Patents
  • Question Box
  • Book Review
  • Patent Advice (H. Gernsback)
  • Opportunity Exchange
  • Scientific Exchange Columns


Publisher:
Experimenter Publishing Company, Inc.
Editor: Hugo Gernsback
Issue: Volume 5: Number 10; Whole No. 58; February 1918
Pages: 80
Size: 9″ x 12″
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