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Electrical Experimenter (07:09) January 1920

Hugo Gernsback, editor

1920
"Henry Woodhouse, the well-known aviation expert, recently gave out a report that there had been plans disclosed in Chicago for a radically new type of flying craft, to be propelled by electricity entirely, and therefore to be of such great power and efficiency as to be able to make flight around the world. The airplane is also credited with being capable of carrying from 75 to 100 passengers, and the wings are to have a spread of 240 feet, while the airship itself is 180 feet in length."
This is the January 1920 issue of Electrical Experimenter. The cover story is “First Wingless Airplane,” introducing the helicopter. Another article features a model helicopter design. Other articles include whether an electric airplane is feasible, learning telegraphy at school, the radio compass, and Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Contents of this Issue:
  • Editorial: A Celestial Short-Circuit (H. Gernsback)
  • Vertical Lighthouse Beams
  • The “Helicopter,” A Vertical Airplane (Robert G. Skerrett)
  • Is the Electric Airplane Possible?
  • What Atomic Forces Could Do
  • Electric Locos Cross Mountains
  • Magnetic Storms (Lindley Pyle)
  • Swimming Pool Purified by Electric Rays (Joseph H. Kraus)
  • The World’s Largest Theater
  • The Locomotive Periscope: Next! (George Wall)
  • Abolishing Smoke Electrically
  • The Electrical Engineer at Work (H. Winfield Secor)
  • Learning Telegraphy and Radio at School
  • A Model Helicopter (William John Beach)
  • Science in Latest Movies
  • Astern! With Engine Running Ahead! (Charles M. Ripley)
  • Popular Astronomy: The Einstein Theory of Relativity (Isabel M. Lewis)
  • The Mt. Wilson 100-Inch Reflecting Telescope (Floyd L. Darrow)
  • The First Automatic Telephone
  • Recording Daylight
  • The Structure of Electricity (Dr. Alfred Gradenwitz)
  • Is There a Sub-Electron? (Rogers D. Rusk)
  • Automobile News
  • The Amateur Magician (Joseph H. Kraus)
  • Practical Chemical Experiments (Albert W. Wilsdon)
  • The Constructor: Home-Made Arc Searchlight (Frank Calvert, Jr.)
  • A Small Rectifier for Charging Storage Batteries (Elliott A. White)
  • Calibrating Electrical Measuring Instruments (Thomas W. Benson)
  • Instrument for Measuring Radio-Activity (Ivan Crawford)
  • Selective Switch for Three or More Interphones
  • The Electrical Machinist: No. 3–Motor Journals and Bearings (H. Winfield Secor)
  • How-To-Make-It
  • Wrinkles, Recipes, Formulas (S. Gernsback)
  • Radio Department: The Radio Compass (Pierre H. Boucheron)
  • An Oscillion Radio Telephone and Telegraph
  • New Undamped Radio Receiver
  • Radio Fog Signaling A Success
  • New 165 Ft. Portable Radio Mast
  • Latest Patents
  • With the Amateurs
  • Science in Slang (Emerson Easterling)
  • The Oracle
  • Patent Advice (H. Gernsback)
  • Opportunity Ad-Lets


Publisher:
Experimenter Publishing Company, Inc.
Editor: Hugo Gernsback
Issue: Volume 7: Number 9; Whole No. 81; January 1920
Pages: 120
Size: 9″ x 12″
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