Hugo Gernsback Papers An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University

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Hugo Gernsback Papers

An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University

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Date: 1978

Revision history:

17 Aug 2005

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Feb 2006

added note regarding additions

Oct 2021

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Overview of the Collection

Creator:

Gernsback, Hugo, 1884-1967

Title:

Hugo Gernsback Papers

Dates:

1890-1995

Quantity:

30 linear ft.

Abstract:

Correspondence, memorabilia, writings, and publications of the Luxembourg-American author, editor, publisher, and entrepreneur in the fields of amateur radio, electronics, and science fiction.

Language:

Majority in English; some items in Spanish, French, German, Russian, and Italian.

Repository:

Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
222 Waverly Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center

Biographical History

Hugo Gernsback (1884-1967) was a Luxembourg-American author, editor, publisher, and entrepreneur in the fields of amateur radio, electronics, and science fiction. For his contributions to the latter, including creating the first magazine dedicated to the genre ( Amazing Stories, 1926), he has often been called "the father of science fiction." The Hugo Awards, presented at the annual World Science Fiction Convention, are named for him.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Hugo Gernsback Papers consists of correspondence, Gernsback publications, memorabilia, subject files, and writings.

The relatively small amount of Correspondence is primarily from the mid-1950s, and is almost entirely incoming. Most relates to various endeavors of Gernsback's, such as his efforts to interest commercial fisheries in his patented hydraulic device and a letter to Latin American distributors regarding a Spanish-language edition of Radio-Electronics. Other correspondents include colleagues and collaborators such as Marc Lanval, David Sarnoff, and Austin Lescarboura, and fellow science fiction enthusiasts such as Sam Moskowitz.

Material relating to Gernsback publications includes a small amount of business records (advertisements, copyright and trademark registrations, form letters, and so on) and a considerable amount of printed material published by Gernsback under one or another of his company names. Most are "how-to" manuals for the amateur radio enthusiast; some are standalone titles ( 101 short wave hookups, How to build and operate short wave receivers, Radio trouble finder) while others were published as part of a named series (The Experimenter's Library, Radio Tinker's Library, etc.). There are also catalogs from Gernsback's Electro Importing Company and Radio Trading Co., milestone anniversary issues of Radio-Craft and Radio-Electronics, and a reprint of radio, telephone, and telegraphic equipment from the Montgomery Ward catalog. The miscellaneous material at the end of this series contains two pieces of artwork from the 1940s by science fiction illustrator Alex Schomburg, but otherwise mostly dates from the 1980s and 1990s and thus has little connection with Gernsback.

Memorabilia includes awards, clippings, photographs, and assorted other items, which together illustrate Gernsback's impact on amateur radio and on science fiction. Among the earliest items is a "Budding Electrician" certificate from the Carmelite Convent in Luxembourg, bestowed for installing "our electrical bell system, gratis" -- it is dated 1890, meaning that Gernsback would have been about six years old at the time. At the end of this series are a few artifacts, mostly unidentifiable but likely related to short wave radio construction.

The vast majority of material in the Subject files consists of photographs, either original or reproductions, of a wide range of home, commercial, and industrial electronics and technology. Many of the photographs have detailed typed captions. Other formats include negatives, color transparencies, drawings, sketches, and occasionally product literature, correspondence, and clippings. Subjects range from amplifiers, microphones, and tuners to spaceships, moon radio, and satellites. A few folders pertain to individuals (Nikola Tesla, Lee De Forest) while "Biographies" and "Portraits" contain brief descriptions and photographs, respectively, of important individuals in the field. These files, which have been preserved as originally arranged, undoubtedly served as reference/source material for Gernsback's magazines during his life, and continued to be used and added to after his death.

Writings contains articles, books, letters to the editor, manuals, speeches, stories, and miscellaneous items by Gernsback. Included here are his editorials for Amazing Stories, Electrical Experimenter, Everyday Science and Mechanics, Radio News, Radio & Television, Radio-Craft, Radio-Electronics, Science fiction Plus, Science and Invention, Science Wonder Stories, Short Wave Craft, Television News, and Wonder Stories. Many of his pieces predict, propose, or describe technology that was novel at the time but is common today, such as telemedicine ("Call the teledoctor"), desalination ("Miracle from the Sea"), text-to-speech ("A writing machine that responds to the voice"), and drones ("The radio-controlled television plane"). There are several editions of his novel Ralph 124C 41+, including a German edition, as well as his story "Scientific adventures of Baron Munchausen" as published in Amazing Stories. Also included are fifteen years of Forecast, Gernsback's annual holiday booklet in which he laid out his science and technology predictions for the coming year, and a number of his humorous/parody Christmas magazines.

Arrangement of the Collection

Correspondence is alphabetical by correspondent. Gernsback publications are subdivided into business records (alphabetical by format or topic) and printed material (alphabetical by title). Memorabilia is alphabetical by title or topic. Subject files remain in original order and with original titles. Writings are subdivided by type (articles, books, etc.) and within each type are alphabetical by title. The few writings by others, at the end of the series, are alphabetical by author's name.

Restrictions

Access Restrictions:

The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.

Use Restrictions:

Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

Related Material

The collection originally contained extensive runs of periodicals for which Gernsback was the editor, publisher, or both. These have been cataloged. Please refer to Libraries Search to locate these items.

Titles include: Air wonder stories, Amazing detectives, Amazing stories, Aviation mechanics, Electrical experimenter, Everyday mechanics, Everyday science and mechanics, The experimenter, Facts of life, Flight, Foto-craft, French humor, Gadgets, High sea adventures, Know yourself, Life guide, Light, Luz, Milady, Modern electrics, Moneymaking, Motor camper & tourist, New ideas for everybody, Pirate stories, Popular medicine, Practical electrics, Radio amateur news, Radio & television, Radio-craft, Radio-electronics, Radio electronics weekly business letter, Radio listeners guide and call book, Radio news, Radio program weekly, Radio review, Science and invention, Science fiction, Science wonder stories, Scientific detective monthly, Sexologia, Sexology, Short wave and television, Short wave craft, Superworld comics, Technocracy review, Television, Television news, Woman's Digest, Wonder stories, Your body, and: Your dreams.

Special Collections Research Center has extensive holdings related to science fiction and pulp-era publishing in both its manuscript and published holdings. Related corporate collections include Ace Books, Galaxy Publishing Company, Mercury Press, and Street and Smith. Individual collections include Forrest Ackerman, Anne McCaffrey, Piers Anthony, Theodore Cogswell, Murray Leinster, Neil R. Jones, Keith Laumer, Andre Norton, and Kate Wilhelm. Cataloged material includes magazines such as If and Astounding, as well as fanzines and conference programs. Please refer to Libraries Search to locate cataloged items, and to the SCRC Subject Index for a full list of related manuscript collections.

Many of Gernsback's publications are available in digital format on the World Radio History website.

Subject Headings

Persons

Ackerman, Forrest J.
De Forest, Lee, 1873-1961.
Ernsting, Walter, 1920-2005.
Fitch, Clyde, 1865-1909.
Gernsback, Hugo, 1884-1967.
Gernsback, Hugo, 1884-1967. -- Baron Münchausen's Scientific Adventures.
Gernsback, Hugo, 1884-1967. -- Ralph 124C 41+
Gernsback, Sidney, 1876-
Kazantsev, Aleksandr, 1906-2002.
Lanval, Marc, 1898-
Lescarboura, Austin C. (Austin Celestin), 1891-
Menzel, Donald H. (Donald Howard), 1901-1976.
Mims, Forrest M.
Moskowitz, Sam.
Pomeroy, Wardell B. (Wardell Baxter), 1913-2001.
Sarnoff, David, 1891-1971.
Schomburg, Alex.
Secor, H. W. (Harry Winfield), 1887-
Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943.

Corporate Bodies

Electro Importing Company.
Engineering Society of Detroit.
MIT Science Fiction Society.
New York University.
Radio Club of America.
Radio Corporation of America.
Radio Trading Co.
Society of Wireless Pioneers.

Associated Titles

Air wonder stories.
Amazing stories.
Electrical experimenter.
Everyday science and mechanics.
Forecast.
Know yourself.
Modern electrics.
Popular electronics.
Radio & television.
Radio amateur news.
Radio news.
Radio-craft library.
Radio-craft.
Radio-electronics.
Science and invention.
Science fiction plus.
Science wonder stories.
Sexology.
Short wave and television.
Short wave craft.
Technocracy review.
Television news.
The experimenter's library.
The radio tinker's library.
Utopia Sonderband.
Wonder stories.

Subjects

Authors, American.
Automobiles -- Radio equipment.
Editors -- United States.
Electronic apparatus and appliances -- Photographs.
Electronics -- Amateurs' manuals.
Electronics -- Periodicals.
Luxembourg Americans.
Military art and science.
Periodical editors.
Periodicals -- Publishing.
Popular literature -- United States.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.
Radio -- Amateurs' manuals.
Radio -- History.
Radio -- Periodicals.
Radio broadcasting -- History.
Radio broadcasting -- Social aspects.
Radio control.
Science fiction -- Illustration.
Science fiction -- Periodicals.
Science publishing.
Sexuality -- Periodicals.
Shortwave radio -- Periodicals.
Space flight.
Technical writing.
Technological innovations.
Technology -- Periodicals.
Television -- History.
Television -- Periodicals.

Places

Luxembourg.
United States -- Popular culture.

Genres and Forms

Articles.
Biographical sketches.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Color transparencies.
Correspondence.
Cylinders (sound recordings)
Drafts (documents)
Editorials.
Lantern slides.
Manuscripts for publication.
Negative prints.
Negatives (photographs)
Patents.
Periodicals.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Speeches (documents)

Occupations

Authors.
Editors.
Inventors.
Publishers.

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

Hugo Gernsback Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries

Acquisition Information

Gift of Hugo Gernsback, Harvey Gernsback, Gernsback estate, and Adria Coren, 1965-2005.

Correspondence

Gernsback publications

Memorabilia

Subject files

Writings

Inventory

Correspondence

Box 1

Ackerman, Forrest J 1949-1950, 1957

Box 1

Adalia Ltd. 1953

Box 1

Aisberg, E. 1964

Box 1

Blair, William R. 1957

Box 1

Boucheron, Pierre 1945

Box 1

Commissioner of Patents 1961

Box 1

Cummings, Edward H. 1913, 1966 - includes tribute to Gernsback

Box 1

De Forest, Lee 1942-1961

Box 1

Dunn, Gordon E. 1954

Box 1

Editions Satellite 1958-1959

Box 1

Frederick Fell, Inc. 1950

Box 1

Hebert, Arthur A. 1937

Box 1

Henry Ford Museum undated

Box 1

Hoover, Herbert 1952

Box 1

Hydraulic fisheries queries 1957 - letters to various pipe manufacturers about a patented idea for using hydraulics to suck up fish

Box 1

IBM "Think" magazine 1962 - rejection letter

Box 1

Iceland Defense Force 1953

Box 1

Independent News Co. Inc. 1979

Box 1

Institut für Küsten- und Binnenfischerei [Institute for Inshore and Inland Fisheries] 1958-1965

Box 1

Johnson, Lyndon B. 1957

Box 1

Kennedy, John F. 1957

Box 1

Koninklijke Machinenfabrik 1963

Box 1

Lanval, Marc 1954

Box 1

Latin American distributors undated - letter regarding possible Spanish edition of Radio-Electronics

Box 1

Lescarboura, Austin 1959

Box 1

Luxembourg, Duchy of 1954, 1959

Box 1

Marx, Edmond 1958

Box 1

Menzel, Donald H. 1953-1958, 1970

Box 1

McMorrow, Berman, & Davidson 1957-1958

Box 1

Moskowitz, Sam 1964 - includes material related to "First Fandom" award given to Gernsback

Box 1

Musick, Dan 1964

Box 1

New magazine contest 1961 - letter to unidentified readers, regarding contest to name a new Gernsback magazine that would focus on the latest technological developments

Box 1

New York University (NYU) 1950, 1954, 1958 - mostly related to establishment of Gernsback Scholarship; includes photographs of first four recipients

Box 1

Philco Corp. 1955

Box 1

"Radio Amateur News" announcement 1919 - letter to unidentified readers, announcing new magazine

Box 1

Rommel, Allwine, & Rommel 1961, 1963 - patent/trademark attorneys

Box 1

Sarnoff, David 1935

Box 1

Scott Meredith 1962

Box 1

Steckler, Larry 1962

Box 1

U.S. Naval Communication Station 1960

Box 1

Watson-Watt, Robert 1963, 1973

Box 1

Miscellaneous

Gernsback publications

Business records

Oversize 1

Advertising broadsides 1907, undated

See also Memorabilia : Photographs : Electro Importing Co. below.

Electro Importing Company, 2 items: "Our new fall line" broadside with pictures of items, with New York and Brussels addresses; "A few views of our organization" broadside with photos of stockrooms, Gernsback, his offices, etc.

Radio Trading Co., 1 item: "Radios for 1935 season" broadside with images and descriptions of items

Box 2

Business certificates 1940, 1987

Box 2

Credit memos from manufacturers 1969-1970

Box 2

Form letters

Box 2

Notarized receipts for stories 1929 - proofs of 3 stories, signed and notarized as received

Oversize 2

"Paleozoic Primitive Art" 1943 - includes Radio-Craft covers with captions, humorous comments on sales resistance; possibly a marketing presentation

Box 2

Science Fiction Plus 1952-1953 - payment records, printing contracts, tables of contents, stamps to advertise magazine, etc.

Box 2

Tape duplicating

Box 2

Trademark registrations 1909-1910, 1913-1914, 1929, 1935-1937, 1952-1953, 1955, 1963

Printed material

Box 2

10 most popular short wave receivers: How to make and work them 1933

Box 2

101 short wave hookups [1932?]

Box 2

101 short wave hookups 1936

Box 2

150 radio hookups 1926 - "prepared by the staff of Radio News"

Box 2

ABC of television 1937

Box 2

Amplifier handbook and public address guide / Moe Asch 1940-1941

Box 2

"The Boy's Electric Toys" 1917 - full-page ad for kit; instruction book with activities

Box 2

Construction of induction coils and transformers / H. Winfield Secor 1910 - banner across top of front cover says "The Electric Library No. 3"

Box 2

The electrical experimenter - reproductions of miscellaneous pages

Box 8

Electro Importing Co. catalogs, bound [Volume 1] 1905-1912

[unnumbered catalog]
No. 3, 1906
No. 4, [1907?]
No. 5, First Edition, 1908
No. 6, First Edition, 1909
No. 7, First Edition, 1910
No. 7, Second Edition, 1910
No. 8, First Edition, 1910
No. 9, Second Edition, 1911
No. 10 [First Edition, 1911]
No. 10 Second Edition, 1912
No. 10S First Edition, 1911 [Spanish edition]

Box 8

Electro Importing Co. catalogs, bound [Volume 2] 1909-1912

No. 4, Third Edition, 1910
No. 6, First Edition, 1909
No. 7, Second Edition, 1910
No. 9, Second Edition, 1911
No. 10, Third Second Edition, 1911
No. 10 Second Edition, 1912

Box 8

Electro Importing Co. catalogs, bound [Volume 3] 1908-1912

No. 4, Third Edition, 1908
No. 6, First Edition, 1909
No. 7, Second Edition, 1910
No. 8, First Edition, 1910
No. 9, Second Edition, 1911
No. 10, Third Edition, 1911
No. 10, Second Edition, 1912

Box 8

Electro Importing Co. catalogs, bound [Volume 4] 1908-1912

[unidentified catalog, cover missing]
No. 5, First Edition, 1908
No. 6, Second Edition, 1909
No. 7, Second Edition, 1910
No. 8, First Edition, 1910
No. 9, Second Edition, 1911
No. 10, Third Edition, 1911
No. 10, Second Edition, 1912

Box 2

Electro Importing Co. Catalog No. 10S, First Edition 1911 - Spanish edition

Box 2

Electro Importing Co. Catalog [No. 11?] 1913

Box 2

Electro Importing Co. Catalog No. 12, First Edition 1914

Box 2

Electro Importing Co. Catalog No. 14A, "Electric Holiday Suggestions" [1914 or 1915]

Box 3

Electro Importing Co. Catalog No. 15, First Edition 1915

Box 3

Electro Importing Co. Catalog No. 16, First Edition 1916

Box 3

Electro Importing Co. Catalog No. 18, First Edition 1917 - cover has additional title "Wireless & Electrical Cyclopedia"

Box 3

Electro Importing Co. Catalog No. 18, Second Edition 1917 - cover has additional title "Wireless & Electrical Cyclopedia"

Box 3

Electro Importing Co. Catalog No. 19, First Edition 1918 - cover has additional title "Wireless & Electrical Cyclopedia"

Box 3

Electro Importing Co. Catalog No. 19, Second Edition 1918 - cover has additional title "Wireless & Electrical Cyclopedia"

Box 3

Electro Importing Co. Catalog No. 21, Second Edition 1919 - cover has additional title "Wireless & Electrical Cyclopedia"

Box 3

Electro Importing Co. Catalog No. 22, First Edition 1920 - cover has additional title "Wireless & Electrical Cyclopedia"

Box 3

Electro Importing Co. Catalog No. 23, Second Edition 1920 - cover has additional title "Wireless & Electrical Cyclopedia"

Box 3

Electro Importing Co. Catalog, unidentified 1917 - heavily marked up and with laid-in notes

Box 3

Electro Importing Co. mailings, miscellaneous - form letters, envelopes, etc.

Box 3

The Experimenter's Library 1916, 1920 - no. 1-3 (3 volumes)

No. 1 - How to make wireless sending apparatus
No. 2 - How to make wireless receiving apparatus
No. 3 - Design and construction of audion amplifying transformers, Edward T. Jones

Box 3

The Experimenter's Library 1922-1924 - no. 1-3

No. 1 - Tips for the radio amateur constructor, E. Vail Church
No. 2 - How to make radio-phone receiving sets, R. LaCault
No. 2 - How to practical radio receiving sets, W.G. Many
No. 3 - Radio questions answered, A.P. Peck (2 copies)

Box 4

The Experimenter's Library 1922-1924 - no. 4-14

No. 4 - Radio frequency amplifiers and how to make them, John M. Avery
No. 5 - Loud talkers and how to build them, H. Winfield Secor
No. 6 - How to tune your radio set, Maurice L. Muhleman
No. 7 - 100 radio hookups, Maurice L. Muhleman
No. 8 - All about radio parts, Thomas W. Benson
No. 9 - History and operation of the vacuum tube: The Aladdin's lamp pf radio, J.H. Morecroft
No. 10 - The neutrodyne: All about it, Maurice L. Muhleman
No. 11 - How radio is received, R.S. Ould
No. 12 - How to locate troubles in your radio set, Thomas W. Benson
No. 13 - Reflex radio receivers, P.E. Edelman
No. 14 - The super-heterodyne: Theory and construction, F.F. Webb

Box 4

"Frozen" electricity: The electret 1949

Box 4

How to become an amateur radio operator, and secure a U.S. government license, by Lt. Myron F. Eddy 1932

Box 4

How to build modern loudspeakers, Clyde J. Fitch 1928

Box 4

How to build and operate short wave receivers 1937

Box 4

How to electrify your radio set, Victor Osgood 1927

Box 4

How to get best short wave reception, M. Harvey Gernsback 1935

Box 4

Montgomery Ward radio, telephone, and telegraphic equipment - reprinted (presumably from their catalog), with "Compliments of Radio-Electronics Magazine" on the front cover

Box 4

NEW, vol. A no. 1 Sep 1945

Box 4

Official short wave listener 1935-1936 - vol. 1 no. 5 and vol. 2 no. 4

Box 4

Radio amateur course, G.W. Shuart 1937 (2 copies)

Box 4

Radio news - reproductions of miscellaneous pages from magazine

Box 4

Radio reference annual 1938

Box 4

The Radio Tinker's Library 1924 (4 volumes)

No. 1 - A guide for the radio builder, F.F. Webb
No. 2 - The how and why of radio parts, Joseph H. Kraus
No. 4 - How to build the famous one knob set, W.G. Many
No. 5 - How to make a neutrodyne receiver, F.F. Webb

Box 5

The Radio Tinker's Library 1924 (2 volumes)

No. 8 - How to make a resistance coupled amplifier, F.F. Webb
The radio tinker's log book and broadcast guide, including radio broadcast map of the U.S.

Box 5

Radio Trading Co. catalogs 1932-1936 - no. 24, 25, 26, 27, 27SW, 28, 29, 31 (5 folders)

Box 5

The radio trouble finder 1926 - "compiled by the staff of Radio News"

Box 5

Radio-craft Feb 1931

Box 5

Radio-craft Jubilee Souvenir Issue 1938, 1987 (2 folders)

Box 5

Radio-Craft Library 1931-1941 - no. 1-4, 6-9, 11-14, 16, 18-20, 23-25; no. 1 is captioned "Radio Library" (18 volumes in 5 folders)

No. 1 - Radio set analyzers and how to use them, L. Van der Mel
No. 2 - Modern vacuum tubes and how they work, Robert Hertzberg
No. 3 - The superheterodyne book, Clyde Fitch
No. 4 - Modern radio hook-ups: The best radio circuits, R.D. Washburne
No. 6 - Bringing electric sets up to date and modernizing radio receivers, Clifford E. Denton
No. 7 - Radio kinks and wrinkles for service men and experimenters, C.W. Palmer
No. 8 - Radio questions and answers, R.D. Washburne
No. 9 - Automobile radio and servicing, Louis Martin
No. 11 - Point-to-point resistance measurements, Clifford E. Denton
No. 12 - Public address installation and service, J.T. Bernsley
No. 13 - ABC of air conditioning, Paul D. Harrigan
No. 14 - Pocket radio guide, N.H. Lessem
No. 16 - Practical radio circuits, David Bellare
No. 18 - Point-to-point resistance analysis, Bertram M. Freed
No. 19 - Practical radio kinks and short cuts, B. Baker Bryant
No. 20 - The cathode-ray oscilloscope: Theory and practical applications, Charles Sicuranza
No. 23 - Practical public address, B. Baker Bryant
No. 24 - Automobile radio principles and practice, B. Baker Bryant

Box 6

Radio-Craft Library 1931-1941 - no. 25-28 (4 volumes)

No. 25 - Home-made radio test instruments
No. 26 - Modern battery radio sets [2 copies]
No. 27 - Modern radio servicing technique
No. 28 - All about frequency modulation

Box 6

Radio-Craft Library 1946-1947 - no. 30, 35-37; no. 36 is captioned "Gernsback Library"; all titles are "prepared by the editors of Radio-Craft"

No. 30 - Unusual patented circuits 1944-1946
No. 35 - Amateur radio builder's guide [2 copies]
No. 26 - Radio test instruments
No. 37 - Elementary radio servicing

Box 6

Radio-Electronics 1973-1981 - miscellaneous issues (2 folders)

Box 6

Radio-Electronics 50th Anniversary Issue 1979 - one as originally issues, one bound as commemorative volume (2 folders)

Box 39

Radio-Electronics tables of contents 1958-1981 - also includes front covers (6 folders)

Box 6

Short wave beginner's book 1933

Box 6

Short wave coil data book 1937

Box 6

Short wave guide 1936

Box 6

Short wave radio quiz book and kinks 1938

Box 6

Telefiction annual 1962 - vol. A, no. 1

Box 6

TV: It's a cinch! E. Aisberg 1957 - front cover has "Gernsback Library No. 62"

Box 6

Wireless blue book 1909-1910

Box 6

Fragments 1916, 1922 - reproductions of scattered pages, instructions for "radiumscope," etc.

Box 7

Uncertain 1927

Two publications entitled "What radio set shall I buy?" and "The Radio Listener's Monthly Log Book." Publisher for both is The Consrad Co. Inc., but covers and interior are full of ads for other Gernsback publications so these are likely also his publications.

Miscellaneous

Oversize 1

Artwork circa 1945

Three original paintings, probably used as cover illustrations. Two are by comic book artist Alex Schomburg and date from the mid to late 1940s; one of these features remote-controlled tanks, the other depicts soldiers operating a "Gernsback television-controlled machine gun." The third is by an unidentified artist, in a more modern style, and depicts hands assembling an unidentified electronic item.

Box 7

Forest Mims 1990 - science writer; includes biographical sketch, photographs, negatives

Box 7

Hands On Electronics cover photos 1984-1989, undated - includes slides, color transparencies (3 folders)

Oversize 3

Historic Gernsback covers - All About Television, Science and Invention, Television News, Wonder Stories; all black-and-white reproductions, no originals

Box 7

Historic Gernsback covers - Amazing Stories, Modern Electrics, etc.; all black-and-white reproductions, no originals (2 folders)

Box 7

Illustrations for unidentified book, apparently about Gernsback - photographs, captions, text, paste-ups, layout pages, etc.

Box 7

Magazines, miscellaneous 1959, 1967

Oversize 3

"The Magic Course" cover layout - likely for a book by Byron Wels; Wels wrote for several Gernsback publications and was apparently also a practicing magician

Box 7

Popular Electronics, Tesla coil circa 1990-1995 - material for article, including photos, layouts, text, correspondence with Bill Evans

Box 7

Popular Electronics, miscellaneous - layouts, photos, etc.

Oversize 3

Popular Electronics, miscellaneous circa 1990-1995 - cover layouts, cover photos, etc.

Box 7

Special Projects (SP) logos - also includes some for "Hands On Electronics"

Box 7

Unidentified layouts, photos, etc.

Memorabilia

Box 9

Amazing Science Fiction Stories, vol. 34 no. 9 Sep 1960 - contains profile of Gernsback, "Mr. Science Fiction"

Box 38

ARKANDE[?] awards 1957 - photocopies of certificates, in German, of what appear to be personal "Hugos" given by Gernsback; recipients are Clark Darlton (Walter Ernsting) and Erich Pabel Verlag

Box 9

Australian Science Fiction Convention, 3rd 1954 - proceedings, published by Futurian Society of Sydney

Awards

Box 9

"Budding Electrician" certificate, Carmelite Convent, Luxembourg 1890 - for installing an "electrical bell system, gratis"

Box 9

"Father of Magazine Science Fiction," Science Fiction Fandom 1960 - photographs of special Hugo given to Gernsback at WorldCon

First Fandom Award

See Moskowitz, Sam.

Box 9

Helios Foundation 1954 - for "pionnier de l'education sexuelle"; photographs of award

Box 38

Helios Foundation 1953-1954 - issues of their publication Lumiere & Liberte

Box 9

Honorary Membership, Veteran Wireless Operators Association 1945 - VWOA Year Book, with several pages on Gernsback

Oversize 3

Member of Honour, L'Union internationale de la presse radiotechnique et électronique 1966

Box 9

Marconi Memorial Wireless Pioneers Medal, Veteran Wireless Operators Association 1950 - VWOA Year Book, with page on Gernsback

Box 9

Ordre Grand Ducal de la Couronne de Chêne [Order of the Oak Crown], Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 1954 - photoreproductions of certificate, press releases, etc.

Box 9

Radio Industry trophy and testimonial 1953 - includes photographs, program, and congratulatory letters from many significant individuals (e.g. David Sarnoff) (2 folders)

Box 9

Scroll, student engineers at New York University 1950 - program for event at which scroll was presented

Oversize 3

Scroll, student engineers at New York University 1950 - original scroll (matted but badly deteriorated) and reproductions (2 folders)

Box 9

Testimonial Dinner, United Jewish Appeal Electronic Distributors Division 1953 - program, news release, photographs of certificate

Oversize 3

UNIVAC 1964

Box 9

Biographical sketches - by Gernsback and others, including one item in Spanish

Box 9

Blick in die zukunft [Look into the future], Science Fiction Club Deutschland Sep/Oct 1958

Clippings

These include clippings from newspapers, Sunday inserts (e.g. American Weekly), magazines, trade journals, etc. Many of the newspaper clippings are essentially duplicates, being copies of syndicated columns that appeared in various newspapers across the country. The majority are American publications, but there are a few items from outside the United States.

Box 9

About Gernsback 1932, 1934, 1943-1953 - (5 folders)

Box 10

About Gernsback 1954-1960 (12 folders)

Box 11

About Gernsback 1960-1967, 1970-1971, 1990 (2 folders)

Box 11

About Gernsback undated - includes articles in Spanish, Swedish, French, and Italian, some with typed translations; typescript of article by Helen V. Tooker with corrections, evidently for a Puerto Rican publication

Oversize 1

About Gernsback 1957-1958, 1963, undated - includes reprint of newspaper[?] article on flying saucers, with Gernsback illustration and reference; feature story on Gernsback in Spanish edition of LIFE from 26 Jul 1963; one-panel color comic illustrating "pop-out TV" from unidentified newspaper

Box 11

About Sidney Gernsback (brother) 1953

Box 11

Miscellaneous

Oversize 1

Miscellaneous 1965 - photoreproduction of New York Times headline and photo about Russian spacewalk

Box 11

Engineering Society of Detroit, 19th annual meeting 1955

Box 11

Fantasy Times [fanzine] 1955-1956 - two issues that mention Gernsback

Box 11

Future Science Fiction Apr 1959 - includes editorial "Yesterday's World of Tomorrow" that discusses Gernsback and his novel Ralph 124C 41+

Box 11

Golden Atom [fanzine] 1955 - signed and inscribed to Gernsback by editor Larry Farsace

Oversize 1

"Great Prophet in Christmas Cards" - large-scale reprint of article about Gernsback by Clark Kinnaird, from King Features Syndicate; possibly a sales/marketing item targeted at local newspapers

Box 11

Guest book, "WRNY, the radio news magazine station" 1927-1928

Box 11

Henry Ford Museum 1957 - flier and reservation form for appearance by Gernsback

See also Writings : Speeches : Fifty years hence, Henry Ford Museum.

Box 11

"Hugo Gernsback: Father of science fiction" by Sam Moskowitz 1959 - published by Criterion Linotype as "a birthday card to Hugo Gernsback"

Box 11

Kablegram No. 1 1958 - cover story, "Hugo Gernsback: 50 years as a publishing pioneer"

Box 11

Obituaries, Gernsback 1967

Box 11

The Original Science Fiction Stories Jan 1958 - contains poem by Isaac Asimov, criticizing "New Wave" science fiction and referencing Gernsback

Photographs

Box 11

Gernsback - Gernsback as child, young man; at home, at work, at various events; Gernsback family home in Luxembourg (2 folders)

Oversize 3

Gernsback - Gernsback as young man; at work

Oversize 1

Gernsback, formal portrait

Oversize 4, 5

Gernsback and related - series of approximately 60 photographs, numbered and with detailed captions, covering Gernsback's life and career; many are stamped "Return to Harvey Gernsback" or "H. GERNSBACK"; some are stamped "USED IN LIFE JUL 26 1963" referring to a story on pp. 62-68 of that issue, entitled "Barnum of the Space Age: Amazing Hugo Gernsback and his space age scientific prophecies"

See also Clippings : About Gernsback in Oversize 1 above.

Oversize 6

Electro Importing Company 1910-1911 - "the first and original radio store in the world"; appear to be those used in advertising broadside, above

Box 11

Pins - lapel pins for Radio League, Short Wave League

Oversize 1

"Plan de Situation des terrains Gernsbacher M. & C.ie" undated - diagram of area of Luxembourg near the Place Adolphe and Boulevard de la Haute-Petrusse

Box 12

Radio Club of America Diamond Jubilee Year Book 1984 - bound volume

Oversize 8

Radio Club of America Fellowship award 1975 - large plaque, M. Harvey Gernsback

Oversize 1

Radio station license KE2XSX 1956 - photoreproductions of license to operate experimental station at Kingsbridge Armory in New York City, in connection with demonstration of early radio equipment for annual meeting of Institute of Radio Engineers

Box 12

Radio-Electronics 75th Anniversary 1983 - includes commemorative reprint of vol. 1, no. 1

Oversize 7

Scrapbook 1931-1935, 1951, 1967 - mostly clippings, some newsletters and other printed items (1 volume)

Box 12

Society of Wireless Pioneers Year Book 1973

Box 12

"Tell Tale Tail Lamp" invention 1907, 1909 - sketch, notarized description

Box 12

Trieste film festival catalog 1963 - exhibit catalog from first "Festival internazionale del film di fantascienza"

Box 12

Utopia Sonderband, no. 1 1955 - dedicated to Gernsback, signed by Walter Ernsting

Box 12

Utopia Sonderband, no. 2 [1955?] - contains article by Walter Ernsting, "Hugo Gernsback, der Vater der Science Fiction" and reproduction of signed/inscribed photograph on inside cover

Oversize 13

Miscellaneous artifact - homemade microphone, or detector of some sort?

(1) Hollow brass tube mounted on stand, swivels up and down, similar to a table microphone stand; and (2) clear acrylic rod with large circular metal piece on the end. The two pieces are connected by two wires. One end of each wire is affixed to the brass tube. The other end of one is soldered to the circular metal piece; the other wire ends in a small alligator clip.

Oversize 14

Miscellaneous artifacts (18 items)

(A) Discs (4) of unidentified material, approximately 3" in diameter
(B) Discs (2) of similar unidentified material, broken
(C) Vacuum tubes (2) with different interior structures; one on 2-prong base, the other with cloth-wrapped wires protruding
(D) Metal disc with 2 strips of conductive tape [?]
(E) Metal item, 4" long, label reads "Amperex Radiation counter GC151N"
(F) Miscellaneous small loose items (6)
(G) Disc of some sort of translucent plastic
(H) Wax cylinder in wooden case labeled ELECTRO IMPORTING Co. NEW YORK

Oversize 15

Miscellaneous artifacts (5 items)

(A) Discs (2) of similar unidentified material, approximately 8" in diameter
(B) Homemade circuit board
(C) Broken piece of disc similar to item A
(D) Box labeled "ELECTRET COMPOUND A Mfg. by Geo. A. Miel, Co. Inc. Box 263 Lyndhurst, New Jersey," containing two blocks of the material

Subject files

The vast majority of material in this series consists of photographs, either original or reproductions. Many have detailed typed captions. There are also drawings, sketches, color positives and negatives, a few slides, and scattered pieces of product literature, correspondence, and clippings. Titles in this series are those given on the original folders; in the case of unlabelled folders or loose material, titles supplied during processing are indicated by square brackets [ ].

Box 12

Amplifiers

Box 12

Ancient TVs and radios (2 folders)

Box 12

[Animals] - mostly cats

Box 12

Antennas

Box 12

Antennas, radio

Box 13

Antennas, transmitting (2 folders)

Box 38

Antennas, transmitting

Box 13

Antennas, TV

Box 13

Atoms

Box 13

Audio, general

Box 13

Auto electronics (2 folders)

Box 13

Automation

Box 13

Batteries, dry and storage

Box 13

Betatron

Box 13

Biographies - brief bios of significant individuals, e.g. John Ambrose Fleming, David Sarnoff, etc.

Box 13

Biological [empty folder]

Box 13

Boating radio

Box 13

Broadcasting

Box 13

Burglar alarms

Box 13

Capacitors

Box 13

Carborundum

Box 13

Careers

Box 14

Careers

Box 14

[Cars] - includes slides

Box 14

CDs

Box 14

Censorship 1941-1943, 1946 - clippings, correspondence, etc; includes request from US military to classify photographs of Klystron (specialized linear-beam vacuum tube)

Box 14

Charts

Box 14

Chemicals

Box 14

Citizens band [CB] radio (2 folders)

Box 14

[Clocks]

Box 14

Communications [empty folder]

Box 14

Components

Box 14

Computing devices

Box 14

Controls, elect. precision

Box 14

CRT tubes [cathode-ray tubes]

See also Tubes, C-R.

Box 14

Crystals

Box 14

de Forest [Lee] - photographs

Box 15

de Forest [Lee] - photographs, clippings, correspondence (2 folders)

Box 15

Depth sounders

Box 15

Digital instruments

Box 15

Dolby

Box 15

Electrets

Box 15

Electron microscope

Box 15

Electronic ignition

Box 15

Facsimile [fax machines]

Box 15

Fiber optics

Box 15

Fuel cells

Box 15

Future transportation

Box 15

[Games, computer]

Box 15

Geiger counters

Box 15

Gizmos

Box 15

Gould [Leslie]

Box 15

Halley's Comet

Box 16

Historical photos (3 folders)

Box 16

History of TV - includes corporate publications from RCA (3 folders)

Box 16

IC digital clock - includes correspondence with Larry Steckler

Box 16

Integrated circuits

Box 16

Jules Verne medal

Box 16

Lasers

Box 16

Light beam transmission

Box 16

Logic lab

Box 16

LTD Motor Services 1952-1955 - relates to car radios

Box 16

Manipulators

Box 16

MATV [Master Antenna] systems - includes product literature from various companies including RCA and Winegard (2 folders)

Box 17

MATV [Master Antenna] systems - includes product literature from various companies including RCA and Winegard (2 folders)

Box 17

Medical electronics

Box 17

Metal detectors and mine locators

Box 17

Microphones

Box 17

Microwave cooking

Box 17

Microwave equipment

Box 17

Mobile radio

Box 17

Moon photos

Box 17

Moon radio

Box 17

Music

Box 17

Old equipment - drawings and line art only, no photographs

Box 17

Oscilloscopes

Box 38

Oscilloscopes

Box 17

Patents [Gernsback]

Box 17

Hydraulic fishery 1955

Box 17

Physiophone/Osophone 1912, [1924?]

Box 17

Tandem bottle closure

Box 17

Patents [others] - mostly various bottle tops, presumably research for his own patent above

Box 17

Philharmonic Hall

Box 17

Photography

Box 17

Portraits, A-B - various individuals significant in the radio, television, and electronics industries

Box 18

Portraits, C-Z, unidentified, and groups - various individuals significant in the radio, television, and electronics industries (6 folders)

Box 18

Printed circuits

Box 18

Proximity fuses

Box 18

Public address systems

Box 18

Radar ovens

Box 18

Radar, LORAN [long range navigation]

Box 38

Radar, LORAN [long range navigation]

Box 18

Radio, car

See also LTD Motor Services, above.

Box 18

Radio history - clippings

Box 19

Radio history - clippings (5 folders)

Box 19

Radio history - photographs (2 folders)

Box 19

Radio meteorology

Box 19

Radio parts and accessories (2 folders)

Box 19

Radio receivers (3 folders)

Box 20

Radio repair shops

Box 20

Radio schools

Box 20

Readouts

Box 20

Recorders, tape or wire (2 folders)

Box 20

[Recording]

Box 20

Recording studio

Box 20

Rectifiers

Box 20

Relays

Box 20

Remote control rockets

Box 20

Resistors

Box 20

Satellites

Box 20

SATV [satellite television]

Box 20

Service shops

Box 20

Signal Corps

Box 20

Snooperscope

Box 20

Sound

Box 20

Speakers (4 folders)

Box 20

Sputnik I

Box 21

Stereo

Box 21

Technicians and tech. assoc.

Box 21

Telegraphy

Box 21

Telemetering and remote control

Box 21

Telephones

[Television]

See folders starting with "TV" below.

Box 21

Tesla, Nikola - photographs and clippings (2 folders)

Box 21

Test equipment (5 folders)

Box 21

Test equipment, industrial lab

Box 22

Test equipment, industrial lab

Box 22

Test equipment, servicing (5 folders)

Box 22

Test instruments (2 folders)

Box 22

Thermo-electricity

Box 22

Tools (2 folders)

Box 22

Toys

Box 22

Transistors

Box 23

Transmitter equipment (3 folders)

Box 23

Transmitters, broadcast AM/FM

Box 23

Tubes

Box 23

Tubes, C-R (2 folders)

See also CRT tubes [cathode-ray tubes].

Box 23

Tubes, industrial

Box 23

Tubes, receiving (2 folders)

Box 23

Tubes, special

Box 23

Tubes, transmitting (2 folders)

Box 24

Tuners

Box 24

Turntables

Box 24

[TV cameras]

Box 24

TV color history (2 folders)

Box 24

TV components (2 folders)

Box 24

TV GE [General Electric]

Box 24

TV industrial

Box 24

TV patterns and call letters

Box 24

TV raster troubles (3 folders)

Box 24

TV receiver boosters

Box 25

TV scope patterns (3 folders)

Box 25

TV sets

Box 25

TV test patterns

Box 25

TV tubes

Box 25

Ultrasonics

Box 25

VHF

Box 25

Video, ancient

Box 25

Video cassette recorders [VCRs] - includes product information from manufacturers (2 folders)

Box 38

Video cassette recorders [VCRs] - includes product information from manufacturers

Box 26

Video disc systems - includes product information from manufacturers (3 folders)

Box 38

Video disc systems - includes product information from manufacturers

Box 26

Video tape recorders

Box 26

Visie-Talkie - one of Gernsbacks "April Fool" items

Box 26

Voice of America

Box 26

Wamoscope [WAve-MOdulated oscilloSCOPE]

Box 26

Wave form photos (3 folders)

Box 26

X-ray

Box 26

[Unidentified photos, negatives, etc.] (3 folders)

Writings

Box 27

List of Gernsback publications - spanning 1908-1953, includes "one-shots"

Articles

Box 27

Amazing Stories editorials 1926-1929 - first folder has list of dates/titles; formats include originals, reproductions, and photocopies (3 folders)

Box 27

Amazing Stories guest editorial 1961

Box 27

Atom-electronics 1954 - includes clippings from publication in Turkish and German papers

Box 27

Atomelectronics in 1980 1955 - includes reprint of editorial along with clipping of publication in Radio Times of India

Box 27

Atomic energy and radio, in Radio-Craft Oct 1945

Box 27

Atomic gun in 1915, in Radio-Electronics 1945 - reprint of 1915 editorial with added commentary

Box 27

The automobile of the future, in Motor Critic vol. IV No. 2 1955 - related to Gernsback's speech to the Engineering Society of Detroit

Box 27

Berlin to New York in less than one hour, in Everyday Science and Mechanics Nov 1931

Box 27

Call the teledoctor, in The American Weekly 6 Mar 1955

Box 27

Can we radio the moon? 1946 - reprint of 1927 editorial with added commentary

Box 27

Crystron lapel radio (writing as Mohammed Fips), in Radio-Craft Apr 1947

Box 27

Electric gyro-cruiser, in Electrical Experimenter Feb 1916

Box 27

Electrical Experimenter editorials 1915-1920 - first folder has list of dates/titles; formats include originals, reproductions, and photocopies (3 folders)

Box 27

Electricity and gold fishes, in Electrical Experimenter Dec 1917

Box 27

Electro-magnetic brakes for aeroplanes, in Electrical Experimenter Jun 1918

Box 27

Electrocuting whales, in Practical Electrics Jul 1924

Box 27

Electronic alarms, in Radio Times of India Dec 1955

Box 27

The electronic duel, in Esquire May 1955

Box 27

Electronic test paper 1963 - typescript with corrections

Box 27

Everyday Science and Mechanics editorials 1930-1936 - first folder has list of dates/titles; formats include originals, reproductions, and photocopies (3 folders)

Box 27

La exploracion de Marte, in Más Allá (Argentina) vol. 2 no. 15 Aug 1954 - full issue and copies of cover art

Box 27

Express super-liner, in Everyday Science and Mechanics Oct 1933

Box 27

Extra service, in Radioman Feb 1954

Box 27

The flame tank, in Everyday Science and Mechanics Jan 1936

Box 27

Forty years of home radio, in Radio-Craft Jan 1945

Box 27

Fifty years of home radio, in Radio-Electronics Mar 1956 - reprint

Box 27

Have you a white elephant on your hands? In Swap & Sell Mar 1938

Box 27

Hearing through the teeth, in Science and Invention Nov 1923

Box 27

How to feed 10 billion people May 1953 - clippings from various US newspapers

Box 27

How long do books last? - typescript

Box 27

The hypnotone, in Everyday Science and Mechanics Apr 1934

Box 27

Inventions wanted [1960?] - typescript drafts; also includes booklet with same title from National Inventors Council

Box 27

Magnesium paper substitute [1955] - typescript; rejection note from Coronet magazine

Oversize 1

Magnesium paper substitute - mounted illustrations for article

Box 28

The magnetic storm, in Electrical Experimenter Aug 1918

Box 28

Making the most of the moon, in American Weekly Dec 1952

Box 28

Man vs moon Jun 1961 - handwritten draft

Box 28

Miracle from the sea, in Family Weekly 11 Sep 1960 - handwritten draft; published clipping

Box 28

Monstrous machines of the next war, in Everyday Mechanics Oct 1934

Box 28

New Ideas editorials Nov 1937 - vol. 1 no. 1 only

Box 28

Nikola Tesla, father of wireless, in Radio-Craft Feb 1943

Box 28

The not-so-mighty human race 1954

Box 28

Official Martian report, AD 2222 - typescript

Box 28

One hundred years hence, in Everyday Science and Mechanics Sep 1932

Box 28

Our airships cannot be moored to skyscrapers, in Everyday Science and Mechanics May 1932

Box 28

Our feeble senses, in Science Digest Apr 1954

Box 28

The Physiophone, in Electrical Experimenter Apr 1920

Box 28

Probleme der Farben-TV [Problems of color tv], in Radio Service 1954

Box 28

PsItTaFaCtS 1962 - handwritten draft, noted as "for Journal of the Institute of Twenty-First Century Studies"

Box 28

The Radio League of America, in Electrical Experimenter Dec 1915 - reprint

Box 28

Radio News editorials 1919-1929 - first folder has list of dates/titles; formats include originals, reproductions, and photocopies (2 folders)

Box 28

Radio & Television editorials 1940-1941 - first folder has list of dates/titles; formats include originals, reproductions, and photocopies (2 folders)

See Writings by others : Radio & Television editorials for 1939 items.

Box 28

The radio-controlled television plane, in The Experimenter Nov 1924

Box 28

Radio-Craft editorials 1929-1942 - first folder has list of dates/titles; formats include originals, reproductions, and photocopies (6 folders)

Box 29

Radio-Craft editorials 1943-1948 - formats include originals, reproductions, and photocopies (2 folders)

Box 29

Radio-Electronics $1400 prize contest 1964? - handwritten draft

Box 29

Radio-Electronics April Fool articles 1952, 1954-1955, 1957-1958, 1960-1965, undated - handwritten drafts, clippings of published versions; some also have related clippings, photographs, etc. (12 folders)

Box 29

Radio-Electronics editorials 1948-1956 - handwritten drafts, clippings of published versions; some also have related clippings, photographs, etc. (13 folders)

Box 30

Radio-Electronics editorials 1957-1962 - handwritten drafts, clippings of published versions; some also have related clippings, photographs, etc. (16 folders)

Box 31

Radio-Electronics editorials 1963-1965, undated - handwritten drafts, clippings of published versions; some also have related clippings, photographs, etc. (9 folders)

Box 31

Radioelectronics in 1980, in Radio-Electronics Jul 1954 - 25th anniversary of magazine

Box 31

Recent aerial developments, in Electrical Experimenter Jun 1919

Box 31

Richtung elektronik - junger Mann! [Go electronic, young man!],in Radio Service 1952

Box 31

Round trip to the moon, in American Weekly Apr 1955

Box 31

Science fiction plus editorials 1952-1953 - handwritten drafts, typed drafts, clippings of published versions

Box 31

Science fiction that endures 1961 - handwritten draft, noted as written for the 35th anniversary of Amazing Stories

Box 31

Science and Invention editorials 1920-1929 - first folder has list of dates/titles; reproductions and photocopies (4 folders)

Box 38

Science and Invention editorials 1920-1929 - originals

Oversize 3

Science and Invention editorials 1921, 1924, undated - reproductions only

Box 31

Science Wonder Quarterly editorials 1929 - list and vol. 1 no. 1 only

Box 31

Science Wonder Stories editorials 1929-1930 - first folder has list of dates/titles; formats include originals, reproductions, and photocopies (3 folders)

Box 31

Se construiran baterias atomicas y opacaran era de la electricidad [Atomic batteries will be built and the age of electricity will be overshadowed], in Venezuelan newspaper 13 May 1954

Box 31

A sensational radio invention, in Transistor Research Bulletin Jun 1954 - reprint of 1924 editorial with added commentary

Box 32

Sex publishing 1958 - typescript, noted as "article for Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior"

Box 32

Sexology articles 1952, 1954-1955, 1958, 1961-1963 - most are handwritten drafts, no published items; includes several film reviews (11 folders)

Articles are: Announcing intimate questions (1963); Congolese rape of the Belgians (1961); Genealogy of Sexology (1955); Hands (1958); Last Year at Marienbad [review] (1962); Lolita [review] (1962); Male sexual decline (1952); Sex psychosemantomania (1954); Sodom and Gomorrah [review] (1963); A study in vicarious sex (1962). There is also one folder of article ideas.

Box 32

Short Wave Craft editorials 1930-1936 - first folder has list of dates/titles; formats include originals, reproductions, and photocopies (3 folders)

Short Wave and Television editorials

See Writings by others : Short Wave and Television guest editorials

Box 32

Signaling to Mars, in Modern Electrics 1909

Box 32

Suspended gravitation, in Electrical Experimenter Feb 1920

Box 32

Technocracy Review editorials 1933

Box 32

Television editorials 1928 - vol. 1 no. 2 only; reproduction

Box 32

Television News editorials 1931-1933 - includes list of dates/titles; formats include originals, reproductions, and photocopies

Box 32

Television and the telephot, in Modern Electrics Dec 1909

Box 32

Television in USA, in Radio Service [in German] 1952

Box 32

Two-wheeled autos, in American Weekly Nov 1955

Box 32

Vest-pocket seven-tube superhetero-ultradyne (writing as Mohammed Fips), in Radio-Craft May 1933

Box 32

Westinghouse recollections, in Engineering Contours vol. 5 no. 1 Jan 1960 - includes full issue

Box 32

What is sex? in Esquire May 1956

Box 32

[Why I forecast the future] [1960?] - reprinted in 2 holiday advertising booklets from Knoxville Journal and Providence Journal

Box 32

Wonder Stories editorials 1930-1936 - includes list of dates/titles; formats include originals, reproductions, and photocopies (3 folders)

Box 32

Wonder Stories Quarterly editorials 1930-1933 - first folder has list of dates/titles; formats include originals and photocopies (3 folders)

Box 33

A writing machine that responds to the voice, in Electrical Experimenter Apr 1916

Box 33

Unidentified editorials circa 1945

Books

Box 33

Collected works of Mohammed Ulysses Fips 1986

Box 33

Experimental electricity course, with H.W. Secor 1916

Box 33

Experimental electricity course, with H.W. Secor 1918

Box 33

Experimental electricity course, with H.W. Secor 1919

Box 33

Ralph 124C 41+, first edition 1925 - hardback, published by The Stratford Company (Boston)

Box 33

Ralph 124C 41+, second edition, US 1950 - hardback, published by Frederick Fell (New York); forewords by Lee de Forest and Fletcher Pratt

Box 33

Ralph 124C 41+, second edition, UK 1950 - paperback, published by Fantasy Books / Withy Grove Press (London)

Box 33

Ralph 124C 41+, Utopia-Großband Nr. 52 1957 - digest-size German publication, with forewords by Forrest Ackerman, Walter Ernsting, and Gernsback; includes extra covers and note from Walter Ernsting, "Please sign the books and forward to Forry [Forrest Ackerman]. Keep the covers for own use. WE."

Box 33

Ralph 124C 41+, Crest edition 1958 - paperback, published by Fawcett World Library (Chicago); foreword by Fletcher Pratt

Box 34

Ralph 124C 41+ 1911 - reprints of excerpts as published in Modern Electrics

Box 34

Ralph 124C 41+ - photoreproductions of illustrations

Box 34

Ralph 124C 41+ - preface to second edition; handwritten draft and typescript

Box 34

Wireless course, with A. Lescarboura and H.W. Secor 1915 - red softcover

Box 34

Wireless course, with A. Lescarboura and H.W. Secor 1915 - blue hardcover, bound upside-down

Box 34

Wireless course, with A. Lescarboura and H.W. Secor 1921 - red hardcover

Box 34

Wireless course, 12th edition, with A. Lescarboura and H.W. Secor 1923 - black softcover

Box 34

The wireless telephone, 1st edition 1910 - dark blue hardcover

Box 34

The wireless telephone, 2nd edition 1911 - beige paper covers; includes reproduced front matter pages

Forecast

Forecast was Gernsback's annual holiday booklet, in which he laid out his science and technology predictions for the coming year. These were often covered in newspapers and magazines, with varying degrees of seriousness (see Memorabilia : Clippings about Gernsback, above). For most years, the material includes handwritten drafts, photographs, clippings used as reference, layouts, and final published booklets.

Box 34

Forecast 1952-1955 (4 folders)

Box 35

Forecast 1956-1966 (11 folders)

Box 38

Forecast 1966 - layout material (photos, illustrations, etc.)

Forewords and prefaces

Box 35

Illustrated Sex Atlas, "The reason for this book" 1962 - handwritten draft

Box 35

Television [book] 1927

Letters to the editor - all clippings, unless otherwise noted

Box 35

Advertising Age, on pay television Jun 1955

Box 35

LIFE, on the mechanical bed Dec 1945

Box 35

Newsweek, on mooring of dirigibles Jul 1951

Box 35

Popular Science, on electric harpoon Apr 1953

Box 35

Scientific Monthly, on the Schuss-yucca Nov 1952

Box 35

Twilight Zine (MIT SF Society) 1961 - handwritten draft only

Box 35

Unasked Opinion (FAPA #62) 1952 - includes transcription of Gernsback's speech at WorldCon X

Manuals

Oversize 9

Official auto-radio service manual [and] complete directory of all automobile radio receivers, full installation and service guide 1935 - edited and published by Gernsback

Oversize 9

Official radio service manual and complete directory of all commercial wiring diagrams [1931?] - edited and published by Gernsback; includes several supplements

Oversize 10

Official radio service manual [and] complete directory of all 1931-1932 radio receivers 1932 - edited and published by Gernsback; includes several supplements

Oversize 11

Official radio service manual [and] complete directory of all 1933-1934 radio receivers 1934 - edited and published by Gernsback

Oversize 11

Official radio service manual [and] complete directory of all 1934-1935 radio receivers 1935 - edited and published by Gernsback

Oversize 12

Official short-wave radio manual: Complete experimenter's set building and servicing guide [and] full directory of all short wave receivers 1935 - edited and published by Gernsback

Poetry and music

Oversize 3

Rǒd, Weis, Blo: Marche Luxembourgeoise 1901-1903 - published sheet music, reproductions, related clippings

Oversize 1

Rǒd, Weis, Blo: Marche Luxembourgeoise [1901-1903] - published sheet music (damaged)

Box 35

Spring poem [humorous] 1907 - typescript carbon

Speeches

Box 35

Concrete science fiction, Eastern Science Fiction Association 1961-1962 - typescript and 2 copies as published in Telefiction Annual

Box 35

Evolution of radio, Radio Club of America 1960 - as printed in their Proceedings

Box 35

Fifty years hence, Henry Ford Museum 5 Apr 1957 - typescript

Box 35

"Ford Museum slides" 5 Apr 1957 - presumably accompanied speech

Box 35

Future of radio, RCA Institute 19 Dec 1930 - typescript carbon

Box 35

Future of radioelectronics, Purchasing Agents Association 12 Apr 1955 - typed draft with corrections

Box 36

Future transportation, Engineering Society of Detroit 1955 - handwritten draft, typescript, related clippings

Box 36

Impact of science fiction on world progress, WorldCon X 1952 - typescript

Box 36

[Lescarboura testimonial dinner] 1961 - handwritten draft, typescript carbon

Box 40

"NYU slides" Apr 1958 - lantern slides, presumably from a speech at New York University

Box 36

Prophets of doom, MIT Science Fiction Society 1963 - typescript

Box 36

Science fiction vs reality, MIT Science Fiction Society 1960 - typescript, galley proofs, illustrative photographs

Box 36

Your electronic future, National Electronic Distributors Association 1958 - typescript, typescript carbon

Stories

Box 36

Scientific adventures of Baron Munchausen - original pages from serialization in Amazing Stories, with handmade cover

Box 36

Scientific adventures of Baron Munchausen - photocopied set

Box 36

Scientific adventures of Baron Munchausen - reproductions of scattered pages

Miscellaneous

Box 36

Christmas magazines 1944-1946, 1949, 1966 - humorous annual publications, e.g. Radio-Cracy, Quip, Newspeek

Box 36

Documentation of the learn-while-you-sleep method 1950 - printed brochure, illustrative photograph

Box 36

Evolution of modern science fiction 1952 - typescript drafts, published booklet; appears to be a bibliography of science fiction stories published in Gernsback's various magazines

Box 36

Inventing as a business 1933 - typescript with printed cover

Box 36

Know yourself: Life mysteries explained 1938-1939 - Gernsback was presumably the editor (4 issues in 2 folders)

Box 36

Letter announcing new magazine 1961 - handwritten draft; magazine described as digest of science for the layman

Box 36

"Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" endorsement Sep 1957 - printed on inside front cover; 2 copies of full issue

Box 36

Radio-Electronics news releases - written in third person, but as Gernsback was the editor and owner these are considered to be by him

Box 36

Science Fiction Plus 1952 - humorous/parody booklet

Box 37

Space travel: When and how 1953 - survey by Gerry de la Ree of "leading men of science and science fiction"; Gernsback is named as contributor

Box 37

The wireless screech 1909-1910 - parody magazine

Box 37

Miscellaneous - notes, fragments, etc.

Writings by others

Box 38

Dunninger, Joseph, "The art of thought reading" 1956 - 2 printed copies; Dunninger wrote for Science and Invention, among other monthly magazines; and some of his books (though not this one) were published by Gernsback

Box 37

Fitch, Clyde, "The staccatone" 1924 - includes second article on same topic, with no byline

Box 37

Gibbs, Angelica, "Inertrum, neutronium, chromaloy, p-p-p-proot" 1943 - reproduction of original New Yorker article, and several photoreproductions of a title page or cover indicating it was reprinted "compliments of Hugo Gernsback"

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Herrold, Charles D., "90 miles with a one inch coil" in Modern Electrics

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Kazantsev, Aleksandr, Пылающий остров [Burning Island] 1939 - Russian edition hardback; signed and inscribed on title page to Gernsback as "father of modern science fiction"

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Marlowe, A.C., "Wave form apparatus," in Modern Electrics - includes letter to editor (i.e., Gernsback) about hearing earthquake through radio

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Moskowitz, Sam, "The origin of the term science fiction" Feb 1957 - reprinted by Gernsback as small booklet; originally appeared in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

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Pomeroy, Wardell, "An analysis of questions on sex" 1960 - reprint from The Psychological Record; used letters to Gernsback's magazine Sexology as its data set

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Radio & Television guest editorials 1939 - original clippings; authors are Dubilier, McNinch, Girardeau, Beverage

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Short Wave & Television guest editorials 1937 - list of titles and original clippings; authors are Sarnoff, de Forest, Horn, Zworykin, Hogan, Reinartz, Goldsmith, von Ardenne, Farnsworth, Baird

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Steckler, Larry, "Solder joint removal" undated - typescript drafts of chapter 3 of How to Build Anything Electronic

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Wolff, Th. [Thomas], "Can man free himself from gravity?" undated - photocopy; translated from the German and published in Science Wonder Stories

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Unknown, "Electronics Industry Hall of Fame" circa 1990 - typescript (computer printout) draft, consisting of bios of numerous members of the EIHF (3 folders)

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