This issue of Electrical Experimenter is from May 1918. The cover and feature story is the “Television and the Telephot” by Hugo Gernsback, and describes an early model of a mechanical television. There is also an editorial on the importance of machinery in the “modern” warfare of World War I, an article about E.H. Armstrong serving in France, and several radio articles.
Contents of this Issue:
- Editorial: Winning the War (H. Gernsback)
- Electricity and Camera Give 3,000,000 Shells Third Degree
- Locating and Destroying “Subs” with Electro-Magnets
- Yankee Code Not So “Bloedsinning”
- New Spy and Scientific Movies (George Holmes)
- Electricity and Metal Coated Seeds Boost Crops
- The Electro-Magnet in the Operating Room (S. Gernsback)
- Zip! Goes the Motor and Plaster Cast is Off
- Television and the Telephot (H. Gernsback)
- Electrically Heated Beds for the Wounded
- A New Phonographic “Loud Talker” for Public Places (H. Winfield Secor)
- “Vol. 6, No. 1” (By “Electrical Experimenter”—Herself)
- U.S. Patrol Escapes Hun’s Electrified Wires
- “Sub”-Detector, Thriller in New War Play
- Research and Its Importance to Human Progress (Dr. Willis R. Whitney)
- Modern American Electric Furnaces (Frank C. Perkins)
- Electric “Sherardizing” Prevents Rust
- Electricity Makes the Hens Lay, by Heck!
- Fixation of Nitrogen by Electricity (Theodore Bodde, General Electric)
- The Phenomena of Electrical Conduction in Gases (Rogers D. Rusk)
- Radio Department: Capt. E.H. Armstrong “Over There”
- Woman Operator in the U.S. Coast Guard
- External Grid Vacuum Valve Construction: A Unique and Simple Means of Making Experimental Amplifiers (R. U. Clark, 3rd)
- The How and Why of Radio Apparatus: No. 8—Detectors (H. Winfield Secor)
- Design for a Panel Transmitting Set (James R. Hopkins)
- Theory of Tuning, Wave Lengths and Harmonics (Prof. F.E. Austin)
- The Constructor: Building an Electric Piano Player (Charles Horton)
- Experimental Mechanics: Lesson III. (Samuel Cohen)
- “Shooting” Electrical Troubles on Automobiles (Thomas W. Benjamin)
- A Tight Squeeze for Uncle George (Thomas Reed)
- How-to-make-it
- Wrinkles, Recipes, Formulas (S. Gernsback)
- Experimental Chemistry: 24th Lesson: Nitrogen Monoxid. (Albert W. Wilsdon)
- With the Amateurs
- Latest Patents
- Phoney Patents
- The Oracle
- Patent Advice (H. Gernsback)
- Opportunity Exchange
- Scientific Exchange Columns
Publisher: Experimenter Publishing Company, Inc.
Editor: Hugo Gernsback
Issue: Volume 6: Number 1; Whole No.61; May 1918
Pages: 72
Size: 9″ x 12″
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