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 ...

Hugo Gernsback is widely and affectionately known among U.S. inventors as a bottomless well of incredible notions. For more than 30 years fantasies have come in such profusion from his brain that ...

Hugo Gernsback watching a 1.5 inch square television in August 1928. Image from his magazine, Radio News. This seems a little unfair to the author of Ralph 124C 41+, ...

Hugo “Awards” Gernsback was many different things to different people. To his fans, he was a visionary who started some of the most influential (not to mention the first) science fiction ...

Hugo Gernsback was by no means a man without enemies—his ceaseless mismanagement of contributors’ money made sure of that. Nor is he wholly free from controversy—a column of his detailing a ...

Hugo Gernsback, publisher of Radio-Electronics magazine, has a new idea. In his March issue, he presents his conception of a Multiplex Video receiver —a television set that enables viewers to ...

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 ...

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." ...

*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 ...

In 1928 the writer Jack Williamson recounted Gernsback’s view: Science fiction “takes the basis of science . . . and then adds a thing that is alien to science—imagination. It lights the way.” ...