Chronological Contents

Thematic Contents

How to Use This Book

Acknowledgments

Introduction

“up-to-date technic”: Hugo Gernsback’s Pulp Media Theory

“a perfect Babel of voices”: Communities of Inquiry and Wireless Publics

“’phone and code”: Dynamophone, Radioson, and Other Emerging Media

“certain future instrumentalities”: The Mineral Proficiencies of Tinkering

“we exploit the future”: Scientifiction’s Debut

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)

From A Treatise on Wireless Telegraphy (1913)

The Radioson Detector (1914)

Sayville (1915)

Baron Münchhausen’s New Scientific Adventures, Part 5: “Münchhausen Departs for the Planet Mars” (1915)

Phoney Patent Offizz: Bookworm’s Nurse (1915)

Hearing through Your Teeth (1916)

The Future of Wireless (1916)

Imagination versus Facts (1916)

What to Invent (1916)

The Perversity of Things (1916)

War and the Radio Amateur (1917)

Silencing America’s Wireless (1917)

The Magnetic Storm (1918)

Amateur Radio Restored (1919)

Why “Radio Amateur News” Is Here (1919)

Grand Opera by Wireless (1919)

The Future of Radio (1919)

Thomas A. Edison Speaks to You (1919)

Interplanetarian Wireless (1920)

The Physiophone: Music for the Deaf (1920)

Science and Invention (1920)

An American Jules Verne (1920)

Learn and Work While You Sleep (1921)

From Radio for All (1922)

10,000 Years Hence (1922)

Radio Broadcasting (1922)

Human Progress (1922)

Results of the $500.00 Prize Contest: Who Will Save the Radio Amateur? (1923)

Predicting Future Inventions (1923)

The “New” Science and Invention (1923)

Are We Intelligent? (1923)

A Radio-Controlled Television Plane (1924)

The Dark Age of Science (1925)

The Isolator (1925)

A New Sort of Magazine (1926)

The Lure of Scientifiction (1926)

Fiction versus Facts (1926)

Editorially Speaking (1926)

Is Radio at a Standstill? (1926)

The Detectorium (1926)

Imagination and Reality (1926)

The “Pianorad” (1926)

Edison and Radio (1926)

Why the Radio Set Builder? (1927)

New Radio “Things” Wanted (1927)

After Television—What? (1927)

Wired versus Space Radio (1927)

The Electric Duel (1927)

Radio Enters into a New Phase (1927)

The Short-Wave Era (1928)

The Killing Flash (1929)

How to Write “Science” Stories (1930)

Science Fiction versus Science Faction (1930)

Television Technique (1931)

Wonders of the Machine Age (1931)

Reasonableness in Science Fiction (1932)

Index