- Electrical Experimenter
Infobox Magazine
title = Electrical Experimenter
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image_caption = Electricity Lighting Liberty, August 1916
editor =Hugo Gernsback
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frequency = Monthly
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category = Science
company = Experimenter Publishing
publisher = Hugo Gernsback
firstdate = May 1913
finaldate = July 1920
finalnumber = Vol 8 No 3
country = USA
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language = English
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issn =The Electrical Experimenter (OCLC|8740783) was a technical science magazine that was published monthly. It was first published in May 1913, as the successor to
Modern Electrics , a combination of a magazine and mail-order catalog that had been published byHugo Gernsback starting in 1908.citation|last1=Massie|first1=Keith|last2=Perry|first2=Stephen D.|title=Hugo Gernsbeck and Radio Magazines: An Influential Intersection in Broadcast History|journal=Journal of Radio Studies|volume=9|issue=2|year=2002|pages=264–282|url=http://home.utah.edu/~u0202363/hugo_pub.pdf.] "The Electrical Experimenter" continued from May 1913 to July 1920 under that name, focusing on scientific articles aboutradio , and continued with a broader focus as Science and Invention until August 1931.The magazine was edited by Hugo Gernsback until March 1929, when the publishing empire of Sidney and Hugo Gernsback was forced into bankruptcy; after that date it was edited by
Arthur H. Lynch . [ [http://www.philsp.com/data/data104.html Magazine Data File: Electrical Experimenter] ]Under the editorship of Gernsback, it also published some early
science fiction ; he published several of his own stories in the magazine starting in 1915, and encouraged others through a 1916 editorial arguing that a "real electrical experimenter, worthy of the name" must have imagination and a vision for the future. [cite book | author = Michael Ashley | title = Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the beginning to 1950 | year = 2000 | publisher = Liverpool University Press | id = ISBN 0853238553 | pages = pp. 30–33] Between August 1917 and July 1919,Nikola Tesla wrote five articles in the magazine, [ [http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/contents.htm Tesla Bibliography] ] and also published parts of in segments in several issues in 1919.References
External links
* [http://www.magazineart.org/main.php/v/technical/electricalexperimenter/ magazineart.org]
* [http://earlyradiohistory.us/1917de.htm Radio Detector Development] , "The Electrical Experimenter", January, 1917
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