This is the August 1918 issue of Electric Experimenter. The cover art and feature story is “Aerial Mono-Flyer of the Future.” Also in this issue is a story by Hugo Gernsback, “The Magnetic Storm.” Articles include the new use of electric sirens in Paris to warn of air raids, an exposition planned for New York, and an article about the subways in New York.
Contents of this Issue:
- Editorial: War Inventions (H. Gernsback)
- A Gigantic Exposition and Amusement Park in the Making (George Holmes)
- Electric Whirling Disk to Start and Stop Aeroplanes
- Electric Sirens Warn Paris of Air Raids
- How Three New York Subways Meet and Pass One Another
- Searchlights—The Night Eyes of the Army (Frank C. Perkins)
- Aerial Mono-Flyer of the Future (H. Winfield Secor)
- Reclaiming the U-Boats’ Toll by Novel Salvage Operations
- The Magnetic Storm (H. Gernsback)
- Electricity and the Range-Finder in War
- How Birds Take Their Own Pictures Electrically (Dr. E. Bade)
- The Electrical Women of England (Albert H. Bridge)
- Popular Astronomy: The Gaseous Nebulae–Second Paper (Isabel M. Lewis)
- The Phenomena of Electrical Conduction in Gases: Part IV: Why Ions Disappear (Rogers D. Rusk)
- Experimental Physics: Lesson 14: Current Electricity (John J. Furia)
- Radio Department: John Bottomley, Director, Marconi Co., Dies
- Analysis of Irregular Wave Shaped Alternating Curves: Harmonics — Part II (Prof. F.E. Austin)
- The Design and Use of the Wave-Meter: Part IV (Morton W. Sterns)
- The Constructor: How to Make a Simple Spectroscope (Donald S. Binnington)
- Clockworks Without Gears (Thomas Reed)
- Experimental Mechanics: Lesson V: Thread Cutting (Samuel D. Cohen)
- On the Construction of Small Transformers (Prof. F.E. Austin)
- Handy Tape Holder and Cutter
- Experimental Chemistry: Lesson 27: Water: History (Albert W. Wilsdon)
- How to make it
- Wrinkles, Recipes, Formulas (S. Gernsback)
- Latest Patents
- With the Amateurs
- Phoney Patents
- The Oracle
- Patent Advice (H. Gernsback)
- Opportunity Ad-lets
- Scientific Exchange Columns
Publisher: Experimenter Publishing Company, Inc.
Editor: Hugo Gernsback
Issue: Volume 6: Number 4; Whole No. 64; August 1918
Pages: 72
Size: 9″ x 12″
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