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 ...

The inaugural issue of Gernsback's Amazing Stories magazine. Young readers—in several cases the sci-fi writers of the future—could expect an exciting blend of ...

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 ...

“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.

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 ...

“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, ...

*Dang. It reads just like the Digg bookmarking service, only in pulp paper. Creator: Gernsback, Hugo, 1884-1967 Title: Hugo Gernsback Papers Inclusive Dates: 1908-1965 Quantity: 50.0 linear ft.

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 ...

Maybe you blame your smartphone or your open office for the fact that you can’t concentrate at work. But distraction isn’t exactly a new problem: In 1925, inventor Hugo Gernsback published a design ...

This image was lost some time after publication. Hugo Gernsback wrote a syndicated piece in 1925 that imagined the world of 1975. It appeared in the February 8th edition of the San Antonio Light (San ...