This issue of Electrical Experimenter is from June 1920. The cover story is “A Sea-Going Ferris Wheel” by Hugo Gernsback. Other articles are about interplanetary communication, an early metal detector, tele-photography across the ocean, and a working one-person ‘gyrocopter’.
Contents of this Issue:
- Editorial: Metallic “Paper” (H. Gernsback)
- Signal Buoy for Ocean Ships (Edwin F. Linder, M.E.)
- How “Cartoon Movies” Are Made (Joseph H. Kraus)
- A Stereoscopic “Movie” Screen (John J. Furia, A.M.)
- Interplanetary Communication (Albert V.T. Day)
- Searchlight and Mirrors Mark Aero Field (Edwin F. Linder, M.E.)
- Playing Chess Via Telegraph
- Wind and Rain to Order
- Odd Photo Contest
- Electricity Triumps Over Steam
- The Latest Pleasure Tortures
- Electric Odds and Ends
- A Sea-Going Ferris Wheel (H. Gernsback)
- Chicago Professor Gave Foundation for Einstein’s Theory (Robert H. Moulton)
- Master “Movie” Thrills
- Eliminating the “Hello Girl” (H.E. Clapham)
- “Newsophone” to Supplant Newspapers
- Sub-Sea Talk Over Bare Wire (Donald MacGregor)
- Tele-Photography Across The Ocean (Dr. Alfred Gradenwitz)
- Musical Electrization (Jacques Boyer)
- Unusual Electric Lamps
- The Phantom Arm (Charles S. Wolfe)
- Oddities of Sound (concluded) (H. Winfield Secor)
- A Gyrocopter That Flies
- Lecture To Deaf Via Dictagraph
- Is this Airplane Parachute Practicable?
- Plans Trans-Atlantic Airship To Carry 150
- How To Keep Up A Car (Harold Hollingshead)
- Curious Movie Lamp
- A Giant Switch
- Kenotron Vacuum Rectifiers Stop Smoke
- New Synchronous Motor Rectifier
- Home Comforts
- Popular Astronomy: The Earth as a Magnet (Isabel M. Lewis)
- A Miniature “Sky” (Robert H. Moulton)
- The Amateur Magician: The Mystic Roulette Wheel (Joseph H. Kraus)
- The Secret of the Magnet Poles (Walter E. Keever)
- Practical Chemical Experiments (Prof. Floyd L. Darrow)
- The Constructor: Have You a Buried Treasure? (Victor H. Todd)
- Low Voltage Soldering Irons (H.H. Parker)
- An Experimenter’s Work Bench (C.R. Mullin)
- Radium—The Bad Boy of Science (Harold F. Richards, M.A.)
- The Electrical Machinist: No. 8—Gearing and Variable Speed Control (H. WInfield Secor)
- How-To-Make-It
- Wrinkles, Recipes, Formulas (S. Gernsback)
- Radio Department: Secretary Daniels Speaks by Radio
- Radio 100 Words a Minute
- A War-Time Radio Detective Part II (Pierre H. Boucheron)
- 600-Foot Radio Tower, Looking Skyward
- New Wireless Portable ‘Phone
- Radio Controls This Torpedo
- Lost Sister Found by Radio
- High-Power Radio Arcs
- A Long Wave Vertical Coupler
- Building a Mica Diafram Microphone
- With the Amateurs
- What to Invent (Jay G. Hobson)
- Latest Patents
- Poisoned Convicts Become “Electrified”!
- It Is To Laugh
- How Magnets Don’t Pull Nails!
- Scientific Humor
- The Oracle
- Book Review
- Patent Advice (H. Gernsback)
- Opportunity Ad-lets
Publisher: Experimenter Publishing Company, Inc.
Editor: Hugo Gernsback
Issue: Volume 8: Number 2; Whole No. 86; June 1920
Pages: 120
Size: 8-1/4″ x 11-5/8″
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