Hugo Gernsback's vision for a monument devoted to electricity (1922) Jacqueline Moen In 1922, eccentric magazine publisher Hugo Gernsback decided that the world needed a 1,000-foot tall concrete ...
1884: Hugo Gernsback is born in Luxembourg amid the Victorian era's embrace of science and technology. He spends his life parlaying his talents as an editor and publisher to produce a body of work so ...
The strange invention called "The Isolator" was conceived by Hugo Gernsback, a prolific inventor and science-fiction writer, ...
“The tops of our tallest buildings will be flat and glass-covered. They will have airplane landing platforms on which all kinds of airplanes, or even the trans-Atlantic planes of the future will land.
Men watch baseball on a color television of the future (July 1922 Science and Invention magazine) Hugo “Awards” Gernsback was many different things to different people. To his fans, he was a visionary ...
Hugo Gernsback was a pioneer in the world of science fiction during the first half of the 20th century—so much so that the Hugo Awards are named after him. But Gernback also edited serious tech ...
Born in Luxembourg in 1884, Gernsback was the son of a vintner who was apparently prosperous enough to indulge his son's growing passion for gadgetry. You can save this article by registering for free ...
“Within twenty years there will be far more airplanes in the air than we have cars on the ground now. There will be a great exodus from the city to the country, not a movement back to the farm, but, ...
In the words of inventor (and father of science fiction) Hugo Gernsback, the Radio Automaton had “no superior for fighting mobs or for war purposes.” Powered by a gasoline engine and radio controlled ...
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