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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