One of the most fertile of U.S. inventors startled his friends last week with an unusual device: an electronic keyhole peeper to eliminate stooping. It offered comfortable tompeeping complete with ...

SF fans have long had a love-hate relationship with Hugo Gernsback (1884–1967), the immigrant from Luxembourg who founded the first true science fiction magazine in 1926 as a means of popularizing ...

Hugo Gernsback, publisher of Radio-Electronics magazine, has a new idea. In his March issue, he presents his conception of a Multiplex Video receiver —a television set that enables viewers to watch ...

Mike Ashley. Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1970-1980. The History of the Science-Fiction Magazine. Vol. III. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2007. Distributed U Chicago ...

How do you know that someone is “The One?” Gernsback tackled that question in 1924 with an idea for an invention that was supposed to inject some science into the world of romantic attraction. From ...

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Article Summary Superworld Comics #2 features a Frank R. Paul cover and a story symbolizing Gernsback's conflict with Macfadden. Hugo Gernsback vs. Bernarr Macfadden: a classic brains vs. brawn ...