The Perversity of Things : Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction /

The Perversity of Things : Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction / / Hugo Gernsback ; edited by Grant Wythoff.

"In 1905, a young Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg founded an electrical supply shop in New York. This inventor, writer, and publisher Hugo Gernsback would later become famous for launching the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926. But while science fiction's annual Hug...

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VerfasserIn:
Gernsback, Hugo, 1884-1967,
TeilnehmendeR:
Wythoff, Grant,
Place / Publishing House:Middletown, Connecticut ;, London, [England] : : University of Minnesota Press,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Electronic mediations ; 52.
Physical Description:1 online resource (377 pages).
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Thematic Contents
  • Preface: How to Use This Book
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Tinkering
  • A New Interrupter (1905)
  • The Dynamophone (1908)
  • The Born and the Mechanical Inventor (1911)
  • The Radioson Detector (1914)
  • What to Invent (1916)
  • The Perversity of Things (1916)
  • Thomas A. Edison Speaks to You (1919)
  • Human Progress (1922)
  • Results of the $500.00 Prize Contest: Who Will Save the Radio Amateur? (1923)
  • The Isolator (1925)
  • The Detectorium (1926)
  • New Radio "Things" Wanted (1927)
  • Part II. History and Theory of Media
  • The Aerophone Number (1908)
  • Why "Radio Amateur News" is Here (1919)
  • Science and Invention (1920)
  • Learn and Work While You Sleep (1921)
  • The "New" Science and Invention (1923)
  • Are We Intelligent? (1923)
  • Part III. Broadcast Regulation
  • The Wireless Joker (1908)
  • The Wireless Association of America (1909)
  • The Roberts Wireless Bill (1910)
  • The Alexander Wireless Bill (1912)
  • Wireless and the Amateur: A Retrospect (1913)
  • The Future of Radio (1919)
  • Sayville (1915)
  • War and the Radio Amateur (1917)
  • Silencing America's Wireless (1917)
  • Amateur Radio Restored (1919)
  • Wired Versus Space Radio (1927)
  • Part IV. Wireless
  • [Editorials] (1909)
  • From The Wireless Telephone (1911)
  • A Treatise on Wireless Telegraphy (1913)
  • The Future of Wireless (1916)
  • From Radio for All (1922)
  • Radio Broadcasting (1922)
  • Is Radio at a Standstill? (1926)
  • Edison and Radio (1926)
  • Why the Radio Set Builder (1927)
  • Radio Enters a New Phase (1927)
  • The Short-Wave Era (1928)
  • Part V. Television
  • Television and the Telephot (1909)
  • A Radio-Controlled Television Plane (1924)
  • After Television---What? (1927)
  • Television Technique (1931)
  • Part VI. Sound
  • Hearing Through Your Teeth (1916)
  • Grand Opera by Wireless (1919)
  • The Physiophone: Music for the Deaf (1920)
  • The "Pianorad" (1926)
  • Part VII. Scientifiction
  • Signaling to Mars (1909)
  • Our Cover (1913)
  • Phoney Patent Offizz: Bookworm's Nurse (1915)
  • Imagination Versus Fact (1916)
  • Interplanetarian Wireless (1920)
  • An American Jules Verne (1920)
  • 10,000 Years Hence (1922)
  • Predicting Future Inventions (1923)
  • The Dark Age of Science (1925)
  • A New Sort of Magazine (1926)
  • The Lure of Scientifiction (1926)
  • Fiction Versus Facts (1926)
  • Editorially Speaking (1926)
  • Imagination and Reality (1926)
  • How to Write "Science" Stories (1930)
  • Science Fiction vs. Science Faction (1930)
  • Wonders of the Machine Age (1931)
  • Reasonableness in Science Fiction (1932)
  • Part VIII. Selected Fiction
  • Ralph 124C 41+, part 3 (1911)
  • The Scientific Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, part 5: "Munchhausen Departs for the Planet Mars" (1915)
  • The Magnetic Storm (1918)
  • The Electric Duel (1927)
  • The Killing Flash (1929)
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Chronological Contents
  • Preface: How to Use This Book
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • A New Interrupter (1905)
  • The Dynamophone (1908)
  • The Aerophone Number (1908)
  • The Wireless Joker (1908)
  • The Wireless Association of America (1909)
  • [Editorials] (1909)
  • Signaling to Mars (1909)
  • Television and the Telephot (1909)
  • The Roberts Wireless Bill (1910)
  • From The Wireless Telephone (1911)
  • The Born and the Mechanical Inventor (1911)
  • Ralph 124C 41+, part 3 (1911)
  • The Alexander Wireless Bill (1912)
  • Wireless and the Amateur: A Retrospect (1913)
  • Our Cover (1913)
  • A Treatise on Wir.

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