212 Issues of Vintage Historical Electrical Experimenter/Science & Invention Magazines on Data DVD – All issues are individual PDF files.
Electrical and Science Magazine May, 1913 - August 1931
The Electrical Experimenter was a technical science magazine that was published monthly. It was established in May 1913, as the successor to Modern Electrics, a combination of a magazine and mail-order catalog that had been published by Hugo Gernsback starting in 1908 The Electrical Experimenter continued from May 1913 to July 1920 under that name, focusing on scientific articles about radio, and continued with a broader focus as Science and Invention through 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.
History of Electrical Experimenter & Science and Invention Magazine
Hugo Gernsback published a magazine initially called "Electrical Experimenter" beginning in May 1913. The change in title in 1920 to "Science and Invention" was intended encouraged scientific curiosity and amateur scientific experimentation. Much of the focus of the experimentation in the magazine was on radio construction and design, but it also included any new technological advance that was noteworthy to inventors. Readers possessing scientific curiosity were rewarded by articles detailing the principles of physics that could be observed in everyday life, speculative articles on forthcoming technologies, and even “scientifiction” stories about conflict resolutions facilitated by inventive prowess and problem solving.
The last "Science and invention" was issued in August of 1931. The magazine appears to have been reborn in late 1931 with yet another title, "Science and Mechanics"
Today, Gernsback is considered by many to be the father of the Science Fiction genre, and by starting the Science Correspondence Club, also becomes the earliest organizer of science fiction fandom in the United States.
According to Wikipedia:
The Electrical Experimenter was an American technical science magazine that was published monthly. It was established in May 1913, as the successor to Modern Electrics, a combination of a magazine and mail-order catalog that had been published by Hugo Gernsback starting in 1908. The Electrical Experimenter continued from May 1913 to July 1920 under that name, focusing on scientific articles about radio, 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 Experimenter Publishing empire of Sidney and Hugo Gernsback was forced into bankruptcy; after that date it was edited by Arthur H. Lynch.
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. Between August 1917 and July 1919, Nikola Tesla wrote five articles for the magazine, and also published parts of his autobiography in segments in several issues in 1919.
The Electrical Experimenter began publication in May 1913 in an 11 x 8.5 inch format on quality paper stock. At sixteen pages, it boasted that it contained no advertisements, and cost five cents. The page count was a significant reduction in content compared to recent issues of Modern Electrics which ran about one hundred and twelve pages per issue with advertisements. By March 1915 the magazine had begun to accept advertising and the page count increased from sixteen to thirty-two pages and the cover price was changed to ten cents. Shortly after this increase another twelve pages were added in June 1915. By the late twenties the page count had increased to 95 pages and the cover price was 25 cents (Ashley, Lowndes 34).
Science and Invention is best remembered for its speculative articles, scientific fiction serializations, and for encouraging its readers to become amateur electrical experimenters. The distinction of “electrical” in front of the word “experimenter” is an important one. Gernsback’s dedication to electrical experimentation was a substantial one. As a professional experimenter and electrical engineer he made a living in this field. One must remember that the profession of electrical engineer did not command the widespread professional respect it does in the early twenty-first century. According to Gernsback, electrical experimenters like Edison or Tesla or Marconi, whether they became wealthy or not, were more admired for an invention or device's ability to generate income than they were respected by the established scientific community. Even as late as August 1920 this was an issue that Gernsback felt needed to be addressed. He states in the editorial to the first issue of Science and Invention that “it matters little that Jules Verne or Nikola Tesla are a hundred years ahead of the times--the scientists scoff and laugh unbelievingly . . . because the real scientists are as backward as in Galileo’s times”.
In all three of his scientific magazines Gernsback was well-known for speculative articles that predicted advancements in technologies such as wireless data transmission as well as predicting the country’s future reliance on sources of power such as solar energy. The majority of the pages in the July 1925 Science and Invention are dedicated to experimentation and advances in radio, science, home improvement, and other technologies and several of these are in the format of diagrams and schematics for everything from hub cap lights to teaching swimming on land to how to build an automatic fisherman. There are also contests to invent uses for everyday materials such as inner tubes, as well as articles dedicated to debunking the tricks of psychic mediums, crossbreeding flowers to create new colors, presenting interesting facts about Earth’s atmosphere, explaining the planet’s gravitational field, presenting movies at home with sound, scientific magic tricks, and on and on.
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