Modern Electrics was a technical
magazine for the amateur radio and electrical experimenter. It was
created by
Hugo Gernsback and began publication in April
1908. The magazine was initially intended to provide
mail-order information for radio parts and to
promote the amateur radio hobby, but it later became
a vehicle for technology-based fiction stories. The
first fiction appeared in the April, 1911 issue, and
the series of 12 installments by Hugo Gernsback
would later be published as the science fiction
novel Ralph 124C 41+.
The circulation for this magazine increased rapidly,
starting at 2,000 and increasing to 52,000 in 1911.
In 1908, the magazine announced the "wireless
registry", a listing of radio owners, their call
letters, and the type of equipment they owned and
how it was operated.
The magazine was sold by Gernsback in March 1913,
and it became Modern Electrics & Mechanics in
January of 1914. In July, 1914 it merged with
Popular Electricity , and became Popular Electricity
and Modern Mechanics. After a series of changes, it
became Popular Science in 1916 |
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missing issues: A 2016 auction of 12 issues
from 1911 went for nearly $2,000 so we can't compete
with those prices. But our goal is to preserve the
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