Thematic Contents
“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
Part I. Tinkering
The Born and the Mechanical Inventor (1911)
The Perversity of Things (1916)
Thomas A. Edison Speaks to You (1919)
Results of the $500.00 Prize Contest: Who Will Save the Radio Amateur? (1923)
New Radio “Things” Wanted (1927)
Part II. History and Theory of Media
Why “Radio Amateur News”Is Here (1919)
Learn and Work While You Sleep (1921)
The “New” Science and Invention (1923)
Part III. Broadcast Regulation
The Wireless Association of America (1909)
The Roberts Wireless Bill (1910)
The Alexander Wireless Bill (1912)
Wireless and the Amateur: A Retrospect (1913)
War and the Radio Amateur (1917)
Silencing America’s Wireless (1917)
Wired versus Space Radio (1927)
From The Wireless Telephone (1911)
From A Treatise on Wireless Telegraphy (1913)
Is Radio at a Standstill? (1926)
Why the Radio Set Builder? (1927)
Radio Enters into a New Phase (1927)
Part V. Television
Television and the Telephot (1909)
A Radio-Controlled Television Plane (1924)
Part VI. Sound
Hearing through Your Teeth (1916)
Grand Opera by Wireless (1919)
The Physiophone: Music for the Deaf (1920)
Part VII. Scientifiction
Phoney Patent Offizz: Bookworm’s Nurse (1915)
Imagination versus Facts (1916)
Interplanetarian Wireless (1920)
An American Jules Verne (1920)
Predicting Future Inventions (1923)
The Dark Age of Science (1925)
The Lure of Scientifiction (1926)
Imagination and Reality (1926)
How to Write “Science” Stories (1930)
Science Fiction versus Science Faction (1930)
Wonders of the Machine Age (1931)
Reasonableness in Science Fiction (1932)
Part VIII. Selected Fiction