some of the best predictions of gernsback are depicted in the cover art of
his magazines, at the museum we have a nice radiocraft or radio news in one
of the display cases that has a TV that prints pictures records etc
etc......... just like a computer with a printer and a TV card in it with a
camera does now....... and of course the pictures on the front are soooooo
neat!
by the way RALPH was orig. published in 'modern electrics' a gernsback
publication prior to 1918 in serial form. we have those also..........
ed sharpe archivist for smecc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Sieler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Science and science fiction
> Re:
> > Because I'm more sensitive to the situation now, I've been looking for
some
> > indication of the impact of science fiction on "real" science. I've
mentioned
> > before that in 40 years of attending scientific meetings, I've never
once
> > heard of a science fiction author being quoted, other than Arthur C.
Clarke's
> > communications satellites, HAL, and Carl Sagan's Ellie Arroway. I may
have to
> > slightly revise that statement now.
>
> If you're reading this on a CRT, thank your lucky stars that Hugo
Gernsback
> wrote science fiction.
>
> He described television (and coined the word, apparently) in short stories
in
> his radio/scientific magazines. Later, one was found by a young kid ...
> by the name of Philo T. Farnsworth. It inspired him, and a couple of
years
> later, while plowing a field, he invented television.
> (From: "The Boy Who Invented Television" by Paul Schatzkin
>
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1928791301/qid=1042594355/sr=
8-
> 1/ref=sr_8_1/102-6195895-8753726?v=glance&s=books&n=507846))
>
> Hugo also invented/designed/foresaw a wide array of things (including
radar)
> ... many are described in his book "Ralph 124C 41+"
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0803270984/qid=1042593869/sr
=8-
> 1/ref=sr_8_1/102-6195895-8753726?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
>
> From an article in IEEE's "Todays Engineer",
> http://www.todaysengineer.org/zzzzz/merged/apr02/te5.htm we see:
> In it Gernsback predicted radar (Robert Watson-Watt, one of the eventual
> inventors of the technology acknowledged Gernsback as its father),
microfilm,
> the widespread use of magnetic tape, and fluorescent lighting, among
other
> inventions.
>
> The short summary is: if you don't read science fiction, you're
shortchanging
> yourself.
>
> Stan
> --
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