This is the October 1918 issue of Electrical Experimenter. The cover story is “The Automatic Soldier.” Additional stories are about generating electricity from the ocean currents, a new design of lightning rod by Nikola Tesla, and an editorial by Hugo Gernsback about “The War Microbe.”
Contents of this Issue:
- Editorial: The War Microbe (H. Gernsback)
- Our New 400,000 C.P. Aeroplane Flares
- How “Blimps” and Telephone Aid Artillery
- The Artillery “Barrage”–How It Works (H. Winfield Secor)
- Movie Tricks Exposed (W. Edouard Haeussler)
- The Automatic Soldier (H. Gernsback)
- The Automatic Wireless Soldier
- Locating Submarines by Reflection
- An Electric Speed and Direction Indicator for Trans-Atlantic Planes
- Searchlights Mounted on Anti-Aircraft Cannon
- Why Not Electricity from the Ocean?
- This Car Carries a Complete “Power House”
- Tesla Has New Pointless Lightning Rod
- Are Aeroplane Parachutes Practical? (W. Edouard Haeussler)
- Popular Astronomy: The Planet Mars–Fourth Paper (Isabel M. Lewis)
- The Gyro-Electric Destroyer
- Autumnal Uses of the Electric Fan (Grace T. Hadley)
- Experimental Physics: Lesson 16–Current Electricity (Concluded) (John J. Furia)
- New Developments in Telephotography (LeRoy J. Leishman)
- Radio Department: Original “Valves” Used by Dr. J.A. Fleming
- New Developments in Radio Apparatus
- The Revolving Mirror and Spark Discharges (Prof. Lindley Pyle)
- The Einthoven Galvanometer–Part 2 (Samuel D. Cohen)
- The Constructor: Spectroscopic Methods and Spectra (D.S. Binnington)
- Ohm’s Law and A.C. Circuits (Arno A. Kluge)
- The Manipulation of Glass Tubing in the Experimental Laboratory (Prof. Herbert E. Metcalf)
- Experimental Electric Furnaces (Jerome S. Marcus)
- Experimental Chemistry: 26th Lesson–The Halogens–Chlorin (Albert W. Wilsdon)
- How-to-make-it
- Wrinkles, Recipes, Formulas
- Latest Patents
- With the Amateurs
- Phoney Patents
- The Oracle
- Book Review
- Patent Advice (H. Gernsback)
- Opportunity Ad-lets
- Scientific Exchange Columns
Publisher: Experimenter Publishing Company, Inc.
Editor: Hugo Gernsback
Issue: Volume 6: Number 6; Whole No. 66; October 1918
Pages: 80
Size: 9″ x 12″
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