Editoi'ial

PUBLISHER’S PAGE
CANDLES-
are “foi
author, with few exceptions, thinks that his writings
VERY TERRESTRIAL
posterity," and that they will last for all time— when, a matter
JTf
as o:

\jmr fact, nothing lasts forever, not even our 4Vi billion year old Earth and
Newsprint, unless kept in a vacuum, or in a special gas,
crumble? CELESTIAL
to dust in much less than 75 years. Good rag-paper
books may average _ is its almost total
rejection by
us. Gas
250 to 400 years. Very high grade parchment records may last 8,000
to 1U.0UU and electricity have
he Declaration of Independence, written 01 ( made it nearly obso-
years before they fall to pieces. I lete after a vogue of
now preserved between plates of thick glass in «=
10,000 years* Today's
parchment 180 years ago, is
le stored soon and
helium atmosphere* but, alas, the ink is badly faded. It must be
use is religious
tablets au
festive* Backward
Well, our hypothetical author asks, what does last longest- Stone countries use them too.

excellent, if not exposed to the elements* If made of granite, they Iasi C. Early candles con*
sisted of dried plane
a hundred thousand years* Metal plaques, too, if
kept dry, may last -5 U,ULm
soaked
pith in fat.
\
years although dust, grime and oxygen will make much of the
surface i! legible! The pith was the wick.
Later, flax was used
Nor would one print a 300, 000- word book on metal plaques! ^ for wicks* Beeswax
But, says the knowing author, modern man preserves his writing
by means candles were made
unless preserved in a special at- Sinceearliest times
microfilm. Quite true, but even the best film,
7 and often mentioned
last 2000 years. Chemical changes in the film s emulsion by Roman writers. Re-
mosphere, won't even
year uired by nur hire-
destroy It comparatively soon. Film itself becomes brittle in less than 500
el

bears for all lighting

be made to last 25*000 year
What then can we do? Plastics in time could purposes after sun*
them leaves us with certain chemical H down* they were need-
but too little is known about as yet. f his
ed, too, where sun-
metals that could last one million years* Metal sheets could be “printed in light could not pene-
pure
raised type —
in relief. Such a book would have to be kept in a
demonstrate
vacuum too!
to you that
rrace,
candle
€, Chiefly the
is venerated
I dragged in all this ponderous scientific stuff to for its
intellectual
j

tempus phfts fast. If you take this page after a bundled light brought to man's
when fugit, it real
years you won’t be able to read it —
it Will have turned to dusti
knowledge, his prog-
ress and rise. By can-
I— the hypothetical author— am properly and deservedly humbled when I dlelight men studied,
laboring through the
reflect how 'shortlived my literary (?) scribbling really is. This, you min nights to improve the
applaud, is good for the soul, as it also puts me in the proper holiday spmli race. It served alt
great minds of the
Imbued with these lofty thoughts, may I therefore^ as I have for the pasq past, Plato* Caesar,
sincere an J
48 years, extend my ephemeral hand and shake yours with my most Bacon, Charlemagne,
—
Newton, Goethe- all
heartfelt wishes for 1957, plus studied by candle-
light. Shakespeare
outfits QUtrisitnas lauds the candle, too:
3)
, __
*f
J4dw far that tilth, —— —
l^sr Candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed tn a
a JCawptj mih prosperous naughty world.” C, It symbolically fitting that the
is
candle should have a counterpart that lights
HUSO GERNSBACK celestial
the heavens. They are the colossal candles of the Uni-
verse, the comets, C. For billions of years, long before
Despite it All, Your Editor and Publisher Since 1908. man's advent on Earth, they have visited us. Early man
—
was terrorized by comets they were an evil omen. ^
GERNSBACK LIBRARY Most are too faint to be seen. Today we know they have a small head with a luminous Cat!
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electrical excitation* Comets are no rarity. Astronomers discover them
constantly, 1 tie last
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vi/t man-made comets will become a future commonplace* With
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ible gas* When the ejection nozzle is electrified bv high-tension currents, a long,
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 1
HE current controversy outlaw atomic bombs. Even if
ON THE MOON
any may want to occupy the bombardment goes on continu-

T whether we should or should

not test H-bombs is likely to con-
to
they did, it would solve nothing
whatsoever,
bombed
ly
city later.
radioactive, he
If
will
it is high-
not be
ously and, while
our atmosphere
it true that
is

screens a per-
able to enter it for perhaps a centage of the radiations, far
tinue for a long time to come. Clandestine tests could still be
long time. In end, the war is more comes down to earth than
Unfortunately, there seems so far made in the huge underground
of thousands of H-
never waged for the sake of dead- the effect
no assurance that nations will caves which abound in many parts
ly radiation alone. Sooner or later, bombs they were all exploded
if
ever agree upon a practical plan of the world. Because they are
the “conqueror” must occupy the simultaneously.
sealed off from
vanquished area for mop-up op-
the outside at-
mosphere, no ra-
erations and to exploit his for- # Far more dangerous, to my
mer enemy. If all the big centers mind, is the continuous pollution
dioactive fallout]
are “hot” and poisoned for per- of our atmosphere by the noxious
could be detect-'
haps years, he stands to lose more gases generated all over the world,
ed in other coun-
than he gains. especially near large industrial
tries. Nor does
centers, by the automobile and
it make any dif-
• As for testing present and fu- the incinerator. These hydro-
ference if large
or baby type ture super-bombs, in my opinion carbons and other poisonous gases
rhc radioactive bugaboo is a vast vitiate our atmosphere so rapidly
bombs are so
exaggeration. 1 am certain that that it is becoming more and
tested, because,,,
the present rate of testing H- more saturated as time goes on.
with tech nolo gl
ical progress, H- bombs can go on for the next Many medico-scientists are con-
20 years without affecting the vinced that the rise of pulmonary
bombs may be-,
health of the present world pop- cancer is directly attributable to
come so “clean”!
that they will
ulation or our descendants. The the increasing hydrocarbon con-
plain fact is that all current opin- tent of the air we breathe. If a
emit little or no
dangerous radi- ions are pure guesswork — one change is not effected soon, they
group of scientists is positive of maintain, the index of respiratory
ation.
the great danger of continuous cancer must increase inevitably.
For war pur-
tests; the other scoffs at it. Shall we go on with our pres-
poses, bombs in
the main should
One however, stands out
fact, ent cumulative air pollution till
in all controversy: for bil-
the all our cities have become smog
be as destructive
lions of years, the Earth has been centers like Los Angeles? For-
as possible, in
theory. Radioac-
bombarded with all sorts of dan- tunately, there is no necessity for
tive fallout is
gerous radiation —
including the such an outlook. We do have the
most dangerous of all, cosmic means to rid our atmosphere of
not always de-
View of H-Bomb explosion on airless Moon in the center of ii .1 _ rays and X-rays. This colossal an excessive content of hydro-
huge crater. Earth is to right. Space ship is on the left. bllHDle tnC f M
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4
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carbon before it reaches the uni- —

mere speck could by means of a t a n n o t he
versal fatal state. The answer of super electromagnet lift the 103,- evolved with-
course is atomic power now
in — 000- ton Woolworth Building 1 out actual
its —
infancy which, curiously foot off the ground tests. And the ILEttBO
enough, brings us right bach to Since that time we have dis- more types we
H- and other bomb testing! covered the atomic bomb and evolve, the
atomic power, but direct electric more tests will

# The atomic, power —such as

power from the atom is still far be required.
it is —which we use today is
off simply
because research in
this direction has not been per-
Sooner or
later, from
childish, to say the least. We
severed at with effort equal to such tests, true
have learned how
not as yet
to atomic power efficiently.
use that for the A-bomb during electrical atom
Actually, we now utilize only a World War II. power will
tiny fraction of the titanic power
As time goes on, more and e m e r ge a n d

inherent in the atom. The flea

more of the present atomic classi- may well rev-
power we use now fied information becomes public olutionize the
is really a
by-product of atomic energy
property. Vet many scientists world. It will

heat. We use this heat in a boiler would deplore the cessation of do away with
to make steam, then run a steam
all atomic tests at this time. They war because it
engine with it, which finally op- feel rightly that without occa- willgive the
erates an electric generator, giv-
sional tests, scientific progress will impoverished
ing us the electric current we be retarded for years. New facts have-not coun-
want are discovered in nearly every tries abundant
test explosion, large and small. cheap power.
agree too 41 -year-old illustration showing how 1/50 gram of radium could
• Yet scientists, since the Cu-
I
Woolworth Building one foot, if radium's atomic energy
ries discovered radium in 1898,
# Nor is there any foreseeable that, as time lift
was instantly released.
end to new types of atomic bombs. goes on, it may
have known that the atom gives
The A- and H-bombs are but a no longer be wise or safe to con- swing, with trips to the moon
out radiation which is electro-
beginning. The uranium-plu- tinue large-caliber bomb tests on almost a certainty. And what an
magnetic. Why
not capture this
ideal testing locale the moon of-
tonium and hydrogen types are Karth because there may be a ra-
powerful radiation and convert it
only forerunners because at the diation hazard, particularly in fers the physicist! No atmosphere
directly into electricity? I have
time they were designed they lusting new and at present un- to bother with, no population to
recommended this since 1915,*
were the easiest to make in a known bombs which may be far worry about. Bombs can be set
41 years ago. In a theoretical il-
new art. more deadly than anything we off from the thick dust-blanketed
lustration, I showed graphically ground to suck up into the sky
hey will be followed in due
I can conceive of today. Happily,
how if we utilized all its inher-
time by others for special pur- when that time comes, there will for hundreds of miles immense
ent energy at one stroke, one-
poses. They need not necessarily atomic “mushrooms” that will
fiftieth of a gram of radium — be more powerful, more destruc-
be a solution to the problem.
dwarf our mightiest H -explosion
*See “The Wonders o I Radium/’ in tive nor more radioactive. ® By that time —
let us say about on Earth.
the writer’s magazine The Electrical Ex-
perimenter, September, 1015, issue, But there is one certainty: they 1975 — space flying will be in full Or we can set off bombs from
6 FORECAST 1957 7
rhe high lunar mountains for dif- produces no shock waves and
ferent tests. There being no at- there is no direct sound because
mosphere nor winds, the fallout there is no air. Nevertheless, the
will begin to rain down directly sound travels through the moon’s 1

over the test site within hours. ground and those that stand on
Because of the lesser gravity on it will be aware of some sound

the moon the light particles of and vibration as both travel up

the fallout will come down slow-
ly but steadily. The resulting de-
posit can then be scooped up
from the ground for analysis.
Naturally such testing will be
done only on selected sites, per-
haps on the other side of the
moon or in the protective shelter
of large, walled crater sites.
such test grounds may stay “hot”
with dangerous radiation for
years, they will be known by all
scientists as danger
through the legs and body. The
observers, too, will feel the on-
S most of us are aware, 1958 These artificial moons will be
slaught of the heat wave as radi-
ation travels through the lunar
A .has been designated as the
year during which, according to
shot into space by means of mul-
tistage rockets to beyond the ter-
vacuum inform of light.
the
Prof. Homer E. Newell of the restrial atmosphere, where they
Hence, observers must be suf-
1'. Naval Research Labora-
S. will gravitate around the Earth
ficiently distant from the explo-
inry and Dr. Joseph Kaplan, in various orbits from 200 to over
sion if they do not wish to ex-
hairman of the U.S. National 1000 miles above the surface of
As perience severe burns on less in-]
Committee of the International our planet.
sulated parts of their bodies.
<Icophysical Year, between 6 and These satellites are small,
ID space satellites will be launched measuring but 18 to 20 inches in
® Can
areas.
a large future atomic ex-:
plosion set off on the moon be
l>\ the United States. diameter —the size of a beach

What will be the difference seen on Earth 235,000 miles

between a lunar and a terrestrial
atomic explosion? On Earth the
explosion is followed immediate-
ly by severe atmospheric shock
waves and heat waves. Witnesses
customarily cover their ears, even
if they are miles away, so that
their eardrums may not be broken.
On the moon, the explosion
away? Yes, quite brilliantly, if it
occurs on the unlighted part of
the moon, i.e., soon after a new
moon or when it is in its first
quarter. Even at full moon we
will be able to observe it well,
as the atomic flash is more than’
a thousand times brighter than
the moon’s illuminated surface.

POTP UREE
Abridged Subtraction
When a man gets too big for them, 2 and 2 do not always make 4. Thus
he should burn his britches behind him. 2 kisses and 2 hugs may make I black
eye or divorce,
I if the kisser picks

Avoirdupoison the wrong wife.

Completely chastened will be the ob- Daffynition

noxlan who habitually throws his weight crazy people who be-
Scientists are
around, when on a visit to outer space come eminently sane when the world Man-made Earth Satellite with electrically energized comet tail as
finds that he weighs nothing! suddenly understands them. it would look 300 miles up. Tail is flashed on and off from Earth.

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ball. The little moons will speed from hydrogen toother more com- better knowledge gained through edge. My proposal will add but a
plex atoms. Solar light, too, pre- unraveling outer space secrets.
around the Earth once in about trifling expense to the project.
100 minutes. The closer their or- sents problems in outer space, all
come to the Earth, the faster of which have not as yet been ® But
bits
solved. Protected by our bene-
let us return to our satel- ® 1 he plan, in simple terms, is
they must travel. Hence, their lites for a moment. One
ficial thick blanket of air, some
of the this: To give it full visibility,
speed must be high, over 4 Yz problems that has been bothering
the outer radiation never make the satellite an intermittent
miles a second, or from 16,800 of
our scientists is the difficulty of flashing comet at the same time.
to 18,000 miles an hour. reaches us. What will be the ef-
visually observing a satellite once Technically, there is no difficulty
fect of the most powerful of these

0 The man-made satellites are —

Sun rays X-rays, ultra-violet
if: is launched in its orbit. Remem- in accomplishing this, as the phys-

pure instruments of science to ex- and other atomic radiation —on ber, travels at the average rate
it

of, let us say, 17,000 or more

icsof comets has been fairly well
understood for a long time.
plore not only our upper atmos- man in outer space? The Sun in
miles per hour. At such a speed,
reality a titanic atomic bomb, Comets, as textbooks on the
phere but outer space as well. If is
the tiny speck, less than
20 inches subject reveal, have an exceeding-
we are ever to venture beyond functioning continuously through in diameter and 300 miles
many billions of
away, ly small head (the nucleus) and
our atmosphere in manned space- its history of
can barely be seen even with mass. Without their spectacular
ships, we must know many things years. The
Earth, but 93 mil-
a telescope. At night, in the tails probably most of the comets
that puzzle us now. We
are like lions of miles distant, gets a fair
Earth’s shadow, cannot be seen
it would never be observed. The
deep-sea fish that have never ven- share of this vast atomic bom- at all. It may be
glimpsed for cometary tails spread hundreds
tured to the surface of the ocean bardment. What is it like for men >hort periods— at dusk and dawn and often hundreds of thousands
and for hundreds of millions of to face it unsheltered without
—when conditions are right, but of miles behind the nucleus of the
years we have lived at the bot- the protective blanket of air? that is all. "Vet scientists would comet, yet curiously enough, the
tom of our thick atmospheric The Earth satellites have been like to see it continuously, if that tail itself is so thin and tenuous
blanket. created precisely to answer these
were
possible, particularly at the that it has very little substance.
Weknow that outer space questions as well as many others, start and at the near-end of its Stars can be readily seen through
holds many unknown dangers for Crammed full of instrumentation bight before it crashes to earth it. We
know today that such tails
us and physical conditions about
which we know but little. Chief
of all types, they will give us a
full account of outer space and
or into the sea —or vaporizes in are mostly gaseous, composed of
i lie dense lower atmosphere. carbon monoxide, cyanogen and
among these are various power- its mysteries. From such new
True, by the telemetered ra- hydrocarbons.
ful radiations such as ultra-violet, knowledge we will learn under
dio signals which it emits at com-
infra-red, cosmic, X-rays, radio what conditions and with what
mand from Earth stations, the
and perhaps other unknown ones. safeguards man himself can final- • What gives the comet’s tail
ly venture into outer space.
satellite’s general direction is
The Sun as well as the stars known but
its great luminosity? Sunlight is
Outside of this, scientists wilt
for many reasons partly the answer. Yet a comet’s
bombard outer space, not only isual
f
observation, by means of
with powerful radiation, but with learn many things about our uni- tail also shines by its own
light
motion
a “corpuscular’’ energy — finely verse that will benefit mankind!
pictures recording its
by electrical excitation. How
divided matter —
highly charged in undreamt of directions. Solar
Might, for instance, would be of
great advantage.
such electric action originates,
with electromagnetic energy. power on Earth, electrical powei however, is not well understood
direct from the atom, are but two This, I am certain, can be ac- by scientists. Scientists know also
challenging problem!
many complished in a manner so far not
# Space itself abounds jjy'ijth of that gravity has little effect on
charged electrons and atoms — that could possibly be solved from proposed, to the best of my knowl- the tail. A
comet’s tail is always
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be pumped full of a suitable gas, telemetric control from Earth

turned away from the Sun, no
matter in what position the head
is at the moment. It
that the radiation pressure of sun-
light turns the tail away from the
Sun, just as a weathervane turns
away from the direction of the
wind. But the spreading of the
tail and its own luminosity seems
to be an electrical effect. More-
over, miniature comets have been
demonstrated in the laboratory
since 1876!*
0 Taking advantage
facts forty-five years ago, I cre-
ated an comet in my
artificial
science-fiction novel “Ralph 124C
41 To camouflage the where-
abouts of his spaceship from his
adversary, the hero turned it into
preferably one of high luminosity when passing over the various
such as neon or sodium, or a com- observation stations scattered
is believed
bination of a number of gases. along the route of the satellite.
The would be puffed out in
gas
® quite possible that dur-
short bursts from the rear of the It is
satellite by electronic control
. ing the daylight orbiting the
from Earth. Thus the com- satellite - comet would be quite
pressed gas would last a long visible, particularly before its ris-
ing and setting periods. It prob-
time. It probably would be nec-
essary to include a small, light, ably could be observed with the
high-tension induction coil,* bat- naked eye as its tail should ex-
tery- or solar-electric operated, tend for a fair distance.
in the satellite to illuminate the
the creating of Ralph’s artificial tail for night observation when
• During night, how-
a clear
comet was simple for the scientist.,! ever, while the comet would be
of these
“By means of scraps of zinci
the satellite-comet swept around
flashing its tail on and off, nearly
the dark side of the earth. The
and iron over which sul-
filings half the hemisphere’s world popu-
induction coil would be turned
phuric acid was poured, Ralph lation would be able to see the
on only momentarily when puffs
produced a great quantity of hy- of gas were expelled. To save the first man-made spatial celestial
drogen. ... As soon as the stop-j object clearly. Scientific observers,
very vital electric current, the
cock in the wall of the space flyer would not be illuminated con- too, would have a field day for
tail

an artificial comet! Here is how was opened, the hydrogen rushed

out [into space from the tanks].
stantly —
could be flashed on
it
accurate visual observation
for photographic records.
and
the book described the trick for perhaps a second at a time by
“Immediately Ralph connected J wish to acknowledge with thanks sev-
“As comets’ tails are composed eral valuable suggestions made by Dr.
the high frequency apparatus with •A compact hi&h tension induction coil Donald H. Memel, director of the Har-
mainly of hydrogen gas, and dust, living:7,000 to 10,000 volts can be built vard College Observatory, who was kind
the outside aerials of the space roday weighing- less than % pound. enough to read the proofs of this article.
•In 1876 ReiUing-er and Urbanitzky, ship and the phenomenon took
before the Vienna Academy ol Sciences,
reported on their experiments with arti- place.
ficial comets, A tube containing
hydro-
carbon has been pumped out till the which
pressure has fallen to 0,1 millimeter. "The hydrogen particles
If It is connected to an induction
coil,
heretofore had been invisible be- TO OUR READERS
a blue sphere which "han^s" suspended
freely will be formed at the positive gan to glow with a wonderful, FORECAST 1957 — many other predecessors — the annual Christmas
electrode after a short time. Connected like its is

(Fig 1). One is light, enveloping the entire flyer "j

HUGO
-

to the sphere is a tail ,

Card of publisher GERNSBACK. Over 7 000 copies have been printed
the close resem-
f

struck immediately by So much for the science-fiction

blance between this artificial comet and for the publisher's friends in and out of the radio, electronic and television
that of Henry's Comet of 1873 {Fig. 2)
If a conductor (a brass ball) as seen in
aspect of the problem. industry. Please do not send money for extra copies —the booklet is NOT for
Fig 1 is brought near the tube, the tail
-

. sale. Requests for single copies of FORECAST 1957 can be filled only as
flees from the conductor as far as the
tube allows. This again proves that arti-
0 In practice the comet formula long as the present supply lasts. Quantity orders cannot be accommodated.
ficial as well as real comets are sub- for our satellites would not
ject to the same natural laws. As is
known, the tails of all comets are re- change overmuch from the above.
pulsed strongly by the Sun. which is The inside of the satellite would
nothing' but a conductor.
1957 13
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12
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LCL 1 1 llilctpun il \vt ^
jl v ic w
±xJlK i

cast anumber of developments

which are certain to come.
Yet it is necessary to under-
stand that in technical forecast-
ing it is never safe to predict
exactly how long it will take
industry to catch up with the
forecasts. T here are too many
imponderables, too many ob-
stacles in research, in finances
and in manufacturing. There is
always a long and weary road
between prediction and reality.

•
Three-dimensional has TV
long been predicted by the writ-
er anti others. Much research
has been done in this branch
and many patents have been
granted. It is a certainty of
the future.

Colossal sky television ad, 60 miles in diameter with letters satellite, floating 25*30 miles below
25 to 35
around the
miles high. —
The sign an
Earth, This huge sky sign
—
Earth satellite- revolves sign. Both
volve
sign
around
and projector re-
forecast by the writer in 1954 ,*
is lighted from a second Earth in 2Vz hours.
is also a certainty in the not-too-

\\/
"
HILE has been
television as we know it today did not mediate future when multicolor distant future. The heavy cum-
* sets will become as common
with us for a long time become a practical reality until as bersome TV. sets of today are
the writer wrote the first tech- the years immediately following the present black-and-white re- doomed to extinction, chiefly be-
nical article, “Television and the World War II.
ceivers.
cause they take up too much room
Telephot,” in the December, Up to we had
very recently in the modern and future home.
1909, issue of Modern Elec- only monocolor television. Toda ® What of the more distant Most IV manufacturers are
trics it was very crude
also we have full-color receivers and future? In what direction will
See Radio-Electronics, January 1954
in those early days. Television we can look forward to the im television travel? From today’s isme, page 33.

EVI im f m? & '

OF THE
FUTURE
FORECAST 1957
^
lem now.

•
cept
Electronoptics
of
new con-
is

which you may hear a

great deal in the future. It will
be linked intimately with a radi-
cal re-evaluation of all present-
day TV. For over three decades
now the writer has been speaking
a
—
piuu- lam
the TV
(pnospnors ) orT
enenncais
tube’s screen, giving us
light impulses which we require
to perceive the picture.
This roundabout system can
be enormously simplified once we
have mastered the intricacies of
The cathode -ray
electronoptics.
tube will not prevail in the fu-
ture. It is far too cumbersome
—
Vv nat auvei uacis nur
would
pay to get on a monster sky dis-
play sign, measuring 60 miles
across, with letters from 25 to
35 miles high? And to top it all,
an ad that would be seen nightly
(clear skies permitting) by near-
ly
rest
the
of
entire country,
the hemisphere?
entire
plus

This idea is not only feasible, but

the
LUU^umLawc iuluil
incentive not thought of by its
distinguished originator Dr.
Oberth
The
—night television.
mechanics of the Oberth
mirror would remain the same.
About 60 miles in diameter, it
will be built by spacemen, using
prefabricated thin
ders, 200 to
aluminum gir-
700 miles up. As
—

of scan less TV. The animal eye, and too complicated. Exactly how eminently practical and could be the mirror floats free in space,

as we have reiterated constantly, will electronoptics solve the prob- accomplished in 15 years or less. the structure can be extremely
is still by far the best TV re- lem? There may be scores of For the technical data, we re- light —
mere spiderweb. The
a

ceiver. It is also the smallest, methods. Let us hint at only one. fer the reader to the article of mirror part itself is made from
the most compact, the most ef- Semiconductors of the future, Hermann Noordung, AD., M.E., paper-thin squares of the silvery
ficient and the lightest. The eye i.e., transistors combined with “The Problems of Space Fly- white metal sodium. It is cheap
does not scan it —
requires no atomic luminescence, look attrac- ing,” published in the September, and has a high luster, reflecting
huge cathode- ray picture tube. It tive. Remember, transistors are. 1929, issue of Science Wonder light perfectly. Floating in a

works by chemico-electronoptics. still in their earliest infancy Stories, a former Gernsback pub- good vacuum, sodium cannot tar-
Now we know that the electro- you can expect great and aston- lication. The article treated of a nish. It will last for years.

magnetic spectrum has radio ishing, as well as revolutionary, monster spatial mirror, 60 miles The mirror slightly concave

waves in one section, which then advances from them in TV. in diameter and floating from i.e. dished —-toward the Earth is

gradually merge into a high-fre- 200-400 miles above the Earth, in fact a satellite, making one
quency region where the electro- • Celestial Television. 1957-58 invented by Professor Hermann complete revolution around the
radio waves become light rays marks the International Geophys- O berth, the great German mathe- Earth in about 2 hours and 35
the optical part of the spectrum. ical Year, during which man’s matician, one of the scientists re- minutes. It never stops revolv-
It is the contention
writer’s first space vehicles, the artificial sponsible for the World War II ing, unless destroyed.

that the cumbersome instrumen- moons, will be launched. V-l and V-2 rockets.
tation now used in our sets TV This step emboldens us to look This mirror in reality was,
0 Some distance below the cen-
will be replaced with much sim- farther into the future and into and still is, both a peace and war ter of the mirror’s face —toward
pler electronoptical means in the the realm of the really spectacu-
lar television now on the horizon.
weapon. Concentrating the Sun’s the Earth —anywhere from 25 to
future. Why? Let us see how rays like a burning glass, it could 30 miles distant, we have an-
TV sets work today. Few people realize what fan- vaporize the world’s biggest cities other but much smaller satellite
tastic sums are spent in the by its titanic inherent power. — the projector. This can be the
• First we receive the waves United States for television ad- By heating the upper air strata usual near-saucer type and need
(impulses) from the transmitter. vertising and for night advertis- the weather could be changed at not be larger than 100 feet in
We then amplify these impulses ing in illuminated billboards, will. Ice-locked rivers or lakes diameter. It houses the crew, ra-
and convert them into modulated neon signs and other forms of could be melted rapidly. dio and television equipment. The
cathode rays via the picture tube. luminous advertising. It runs over This immense space mirror crew also services the mirror 25 to
These rays then influence cer- $500 million a year. will probably be built in the not- ( Continued on page 31)

16 FORECAST 1957 17
 ^Electronic Doctor
W HEN,
Hippocrates,
over 2,300 years ago,
“The Father of Medicine,”
began to practice,
of even
Why is
the best
this so
portant reasons is
?
physician.
One of the im-
that the body’s
comes.
tient’s
You cannot take
body apart as you can a
machine. Hence you cannot see
a pa- after the disease has
roads,
covered,
the cancer
it is
is

often too
made
finally
its in-

late.
dis-

much of his work was, at best, interior is not accessible as is a inside it to make
a correct analy-
an art To this day, many machine’s, and that the workings sis of every organ, particularly ® What medicine needs urgent-
branches of medicine are still not of the body, especially its cellu- the deep-seated ones. Nor can the ly today is a new concept of diag-
a science. Much remains “hit or lar chemistry, is so inconceivably physician go wholly by symptoms nosis, a strictly scientific and mod-
miss,” and a great deal of treat- complicated, the more we learn — deep-lying cancers, for instance, ern ar m amcntariu m t h at d oes
ment is by intuition on the part of it the more complicated it be- seldom give a warning. When, away with present-day guess-

The Electronic Doctor willassist your doctor to get fast and accurate After you hove been processed, an electronic brain will run a
analyses on his patients. Every imaginable test will be made by this machine. complete record of your case on a tape which goes to your doctor.
FORECAST
work. Midi instrumentation would
give the physician a tool which
he never has known and which
will place medicine on the high
plane it deserves.
The way I imagine this inno-
vation is as follows. A
compli-
cated electronic testing and analy-
sis machine coupled to a special
electronic computer (brain) is to
be evolved. It can almost be built
today from existing means, but
various blood tests, metabolism Such analysis is particularly im- new ones will De aevisea,
dreds of
tests, percussion (tapping) tests, portant in connection with the re- unknown and undreamt of today.
heart soundings, electrocardio- productive glands, i.e., uterus, The important message I wish
graphs, blood pressure and doz- ovaries, prostate, This is
testes. to convey is that in the future
ens of others, that is to say, a true also of the abdomen, lungs, the “Electronic Doctor” will take
complete “Physical.” heart, etc. much of the present guesswork
To speed the work, the “Elec- out of medicine and make it the
tronic Doctor” will have several • Electronic tests not made at important science it deserves to
human physicians or nurses in all today are conductivity and be. Then, if every citizen is re-
attendance who guide the patient. capacitive ones. When we are quired by (a new) law to take
young, electrical conductivity both annual “Electronic Doctor” tests,
® Now come the electronic tests, of or through the skin and various it becomes axiomatic that the fu-

must be improved
steadily as new beginning with total X-rays, not parts of the body is high. As we ture over-all health of all inhabi-
discoveries are made. just one part of the body, but grow older, the conductivity de- tants must not only risesharply
Due to the great cost of such the entire body in 2 or 3 differ- creases. This holds true of the but that much misery,, pain and
a machine, it would have
be to ent positions. inner organs, blood vessels and money now lost through sick leave
installed in hospitals or medical For some time now, I have in- the blood itself. But there are will be saved.
centers. Or it could be run and sisted that, aside from X-rays, it wide variations, which to my best
operated by a group of special is possible with proper equip- knowledge have never been in- • I do not wish to imply that
diagnostic physicians. ment to transilluminate the entire vestigated, between various dis- the electronic doctor will ever do
human body, and in fact “look” eases. There exists a connection away with physicians. On the con-
® Thepurpose of the machine through it with actual light, and between electrical conductivity trary. The “Electronic Doctor”
is purely analytical —
it only ana- photograph every interior organ. and diseases. It merits a great can never be anything more than
lyzes and diagnoses patients sent (See Forecast 1954 and Sex- deal of research. a diagnostic tool. It will be of in-
to the center by their physicians. ology, May, 1954.) Exactly the same conditions ex- calculable value to every doctor
As each patient is processed, By using a light source of ist when we measure the capaci- in lightening his arduous task in
the “Electronic Doctor” prints many millions of candlepower, tance the— factor -of
dielectric — the pursuance of scientific meth-
the diagnostic results on a tape an intense light spot can be fo- various parts of the human (ani- ods in medicine.
in symbols. The final result comes cused on any part of the body. mal) body. We
do know that Moreover the machine’s infor-
—
from the computer a complete The light is first filtered to rid the capacitance of these parts mation must always be evaluated
evaluation of the findings on the it of all heat, so only cold light varies widely in health and in and supplemented by other known
subject-patient. The latter now transilluminates the body. If there disease, but little about this field data of the patient by the physi-
returns to his own physician with isany tumor, it will show up in is known. Much research re- cian. Then too, certain parts of
a most comprehensive report. the photograph. If now a trans- mains to be done here too. the body may not be the same
The machine does all the rou- illumination record is made of 12 or 24 hours after the machine
tine work which physicians do the body, most diseases
entire • Ido not wish to tire the test —
for the body is a living
now, such as ultrasonic testing, will be revealed in the photo- reader with scores of other elec- entity subject to rapid changes.
taking temperatures, but in vari- graphs. To succeed in this method, tronic tests which the “Electronic Only the patient’s doctor can
ous parts of the body, not just in far more photographic
sensitive Doctor” will make on every pa- evaluate the body’s true condition
one or two parts. There are also emulsions must be first developed. tient, because as time goes on lum- and state.

20 FORECAST my 21
 ern man, we find that sex is rare- never gave it
ly an object of levity if it con- much conscious
cents ourselves —
the levity is al- thought since—
most always directed at someone instinctive ac-
else, just as our risibilities are tion was his
aroused when we see a dignified main motivation
person slip and fall on the pave- in those dawn
ment. We
are NOT
amused ages.
when it happens to us.
Ever so slow-
From this it would follow that
ly over a span
man constantly tries to impress
fellow man with his dignity. of hundreds of
his
Foolishly, he often thinks that millenia of years
sex is a sign of weakness and there came a
Hence the subtle change.
P OSSIBLY the most
fact about sex is
amazing
the extraor-
therefore not dignified.
misplaced levity.
Most aborigines take sex life
Various new
forces were now
dinary attitude of humans toward
it. in their stride. To them, sex is acting on our
Although the sex act is a nat- what it should be—a natural hairy ancestors.

ural and universal function, with- function like eating or drinking. More and more,
out which our planet would be a The same is true of most of the man forsook the
lifeless —
world- -nearly everything animal world. forests and
connected with sex is despised, Modern homo sapiens, man, in- caves for the
ridiculed or met with shamefaced stinctively hide every
wants to plains and open

mien and raised eyebrows by our sexual function, so much so that country in
it has today become a devastating search of food.
self-proclaimed civilized races.
What should be the loftiest of phobia responsible for many of He became a
man’s neuroses. nomad. In the
all human expressions, and the
most revered, is dragged through To find further reasons for our open spaces in

the mud and treated with out-

rageous ribaldry.
strange behavior
many millions of years
we must go
back
our
earliest cavemen ancestors. In
to
warmer zones,
his furry
thick,
skin became a sw554«3£8&Ssa dr* -
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® Why do intelligent humans those days most of man’s body distinct hand-
They probably were
was covered with shaggy hair. icap. the torrid summcis
In
desirable.
act in so astounding and wholly of foot and were not
fleeter
incomprehensible a manner when His sex life did not differ much some human species began to shed
winded as fast as the more hairy
it conies to sexual matters? The from quadruped mam-
that of the hair, as do many animals. 1 hen
ones.
answer is quite complex and can- mals which surrounded him and slowly through the ages and by were other
Quite likely there
not be given in a short sentence. with which he was in intimate sexual selection, many human be- yet
mating with less shag- reasons which science has as
Curiously enough, if we analyze contact. Sex was as natural to ings began
not unraveled that contributed
the problem as it pertains to mod- him as hunting he probably— gy specimens, who appeared more
23
22 FORECAST
 ——
making man and tleman consulted me in connec- • Many thousands of years aborigines do not understand ob-
to
sute
less
through the ages. One of
less hir-
tion with a divorce action threat- later — after the last ice age scenity. Modern man, as we said

ened by his wife. It appears that when he had learned to weave at the beginning of this article,
the most compelling no doubt
was a very practical “survival there had been a whirlwind “love- fibers, man took to more and finds it difficult to discuss sex-

compulsion.”
0 In the dense primeval forests
and in the deep caves the habi-
tat of dawn-man — the light
always poor. Seeing and observ-
ing were difficult most of the day,
far worse at night. The hunter
could not distinguish between his
own species and the beasts, hence
many hunters were killed mistak-
enly for animals. This made a
deep and lasting impression on
the survivors and, as with all
at-first-sight” marriage after only more bodily covering, till finally ual with his fellow'-men
topics
a week’s acquaintance. But his a good deal of his anatomy was in a serious manner. Levity in-
covered and stayed covered. variably crops up, particularly
bride lefthim after a three-day
honeymoon. The reason? The During this long evolutionary among laymen.
— husband had as heavy a matted, new emotion had gradu-
stage, a
was hairy front and back as I have allymade itself felt in man # Why is this so? Obviously,
ever seen. His wife was, as he —
shame particularly the shame of only because the average man (or
put it, “so horrified and fright- total nakedness. He now became woman) has only the most super-
conscious of the fact that some- ficial “education” in sexual mat-
ened” that she could not face
him any longer. how he had risen above the ani- ters — if any at all. Nearly all
mals, but he no longer was as so-called “sex education” in our
# Why did she act thus? In- unthinking as he was when he present society goes back to our
roamed the plains nearly naked. earliest childhood, long before our
stinct inherited over a span of
hundreds of thousands of years He knew now that he was dif- teens. It is then that the deepest
dictated to her that this man ferent from other mammals and impression is made .

species,
to change
man
his
strove unconsciously
appearance in his
—
was not her equal he was a he began to reason that he was
above them.
Childhood beliefs in matters of
sex are the most difficult to eradi-
“hairy animal.” Her inborn mech-
battle for existence.
anism of sexual selection came to Too, the insecurity which he cate. Most of us are conditioned
Just as the brown rabbit
changes his fur to white at the
the fore and —
she rejected him. felt in the nude state made a
powerful impression on him,
in much of our adult sex patterns
before we are six. We listen avid-
But let us go back to our
onset of winter for his protection
and survival in the white snow,
—
dawn-age hairless- or nearly which proved cumulative during ly to the childish fantasy-prattle
of our young friends or buddies,
hairless race. Man
had now be- succeeding generations. Exposing
so through evolution man shed oneself became shameful and de- particularly they are a bit old-
if
gun to climb the long road to
his heavy fur for lighter and thin- grading; hence, sexual functions, er. No matter what nonsense they
what we are pleased to call “cul-
ner coverings, till finally there directly linked to nudity, came are teaching us, we believe them
He had become more
—
was no fur at all only a sparse
ture.” also
observant and his “thinking proc- under the same taboo in our so- far more implicitly than the hard-
bodily hair cover. This evolu- esses” had become more acute. called civilization. to-understand ponderous things
tionary process is still going on The winters were quite cold even In most aboriginal societies our unsure-of-themselves parents
in modern man — there are still
in the temperate zones, so man when left alone and uninfluenced try to impress us with, if they
males and females who have a began to use animal skins and by the “civilized” races nudity — talk to us at all on that subject.
fair amount of body hair.
furs to keep warm. These he dis- is the rule. There is, consequent- As we grow up, if we are aver-
no shame-emotion connected age humans, we absorb more
carded when spring and warm ly,

• Let me cite a case which weather came. He kept only a with nudity per sc and sex is — weird “knowledge” from out
treated in a matter-of-fact way. is true that when we
friends. It
came to my attention a few years loin cover or similar device which
ago and which speaks for itself. he needed as a vital protection Sex functions are not ridiculed come of age we may acquire
A very fine-looking Southern gen- while hunting and fishing. and thought obscene. Indeed, most some books on sexual subjects,

24 FORECAST 1957 25
buf it is equally true that we # Answer 2. Dr. Eugene B. “Some medical observers,” he
rarely read them attentively from QUESTIONS Mozes explains “stone babies" in wrote, “have reported a number
cover to cover. Most of us skim 1. How can a girl become preg- this way. “Stone babies" are al- of instances of milk-secreting
through them, because our old nant yet remain a virgin? ways found in the free abdominal breasts in men. Dr. Schenk knew
taboo shame — —
subconsciously 2.
3.
What is a stone baby?
Do men actually suckle and
cavity and not in the womb a man who secreted a rich sup-
prohibits us from reading certain (where normal pregnancy devel- ply of milk from youth until his
nourish infants?
chapters. Anyway, we know all
4. Can one beget children years ops). Here is how pregnancy out- 50th year. Dr. Walaeus gives a
about sex, have known all about after death? side the womb, or ectopic preg- similar report of a Flemish man
it since childhood, so why cram 5. What are transvestites? nancy, takes place. Fertilization of 40 with one enormous milk-
such nonsense into our heads? 6. Why do some boys become takes place in the fallopian tube, producing breast.
pregnant ?
where the male and female sex
® And what
7. Why are girls in some primi-
that is precisely
tive tribes circumcized ?
cells are united. The fertilized # Answer 4. Human sperma-
makes man’s attitudes toward sex 8. How often are twins born, egg then moves to the womb, tozoa have been successfully fro-
so incongruous today — the uni- one black and the other white? where it develops. Sometimes, zen and preserved. A
recent re-
versal ignorance of what sex real- 9. What is phantom pregnancy? however, an accident happens fol- port discloses that three Amer-
ly is from a scientific point of 10. Is fatherless birth possible? lowing fertilization. Instead of
11. How rare are children with ican babies have been born of
view. traveling to the interior of the
tails ? women who were artificially in-
The overwhelming majority of
12. What is telegony?
womb, the fertilized egg remains seminated with frozen human
people everywhere have no con- in the fallopian tube and becomes
sperm. The babies were reported
ception of the great complexity attached to its wall. to be perfectly normal and
and the tremendous range of sex- Here are the answers: Sometimes an abdominal preg- healthy. This epoch-making event
ology. They see sex only as a bou- nancy is not recognized in time. was announced by Dr. R. G.
doir topic, never dreaming that ® Answer 1. According to the In such cases, the baby dies and
Bunge, University of Iowa urol-
thousands of researchers all over late Dr. Maxwell Vidaver, it is is retained in the mother's body
ogist. Scientists now believe that
the world are discovering new an and incontrover-
established indefinitely.
_
human sperm can be stored for
and unsuspected sex facts every tible fact that impregnation has Often excess amounts of lime many years without deteriora-
month in the laboratory and else- taken place in women with un- salts may be deposited on the
tion; hence a man can jioiv have
where. broken hymens, when penetration calcified fetus, increasing its offspring years rtf ter his death.
This snobbish ignorance of sex of the vagina had not been ac- weight. Thus a “stone baby” is
often extends even to the so- complished. Such cases have been not stone at all. Ages ago, before
• A nswer 5. Says Harry Benja-
called educated classes, although recorded in medical literature, much was known on the subject, min, M.D., end ocri nolo gist:
most educated persons will scoff from time to time. Although con- this misnomer originated and the “Transvestism is the desire to
at such a possibility. You can ditions must be extremely favor- ignorant still believe in the term. dress in the clothes of the oppo-
easily convince them of their er- able for impregnation to occur in site sex. 1 his term, first used by
ror with the following question- such a manner, it has happened. 0 Answer
3. Impossible as it Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, has the
naire. If they can answer 20 % All hymens have perforations sounds, the late Dr. Max Bar- disadvantage of naming a dis-
of the questions correctly, they through which live male semen, tels, Ph,D., famed anthropologist turbance of behavior and emo-
will indeed know far more than deposited on the outside of the arid anatomist, of the University tion after only one of its symp-
the average educated person female genitalia, can enter into of Berlin, related a number of toms, although the most conspic-
about sex. the vagina. cases where men suckled infants. uous one. This symptom, which is
26 FORECAST 1957
27
 ,

also known as ‘cross-dressing,’ is an operation resulting in the sur- of This may appear im-
time. imaginary pregnancy of Queen
the symbolic fulfillment of a deep- gical birth of a child who re- possible, but it is confirmed by Draga, the wife of the last king
seated and more or less intense mained alive. An excellent speci- other cases on record of a similar of the Obrenovitch dynasty of
urge indicating a disharmony of men of this abnormality was dis- nature; few, it is true, since few Serbia. The Queen’s desire for
the sexual sense, a sexual inde- sected and is preserved in the women will make such admis- an heir was so strong that she
cision or a disassociation of physi- Hunterian Museum of London. sions ! finally persuaded herself she was
cal and mental sexuality. Few pregnant. The famous Professor
transvestites are homosexuals.”
0 Answer 7. Female circumci- 0 Answer 9. Phantom pregnan- Snygirov, who was summoned
sion has been practiced for ages cies are well documented med- in from Russia, had great difficulty

• Answer 6. Pregnant boys, in many parts of the world. This icine. They are not rare. Let us in convincing the Queen that she
while rare, are now well recog- is what Professor Denise Paulme, listen to Dr. Eugene B. Mozes: was a victim of pseudocyesis. Up
nized by medicine. One case of head of the African Department “Phantom or spurious pregnancy , to the present time, 465 such
a pregnant boy was described by of the Museum of Man, and pro- sometimes called feigned or hys- cases have been described in med-
Prof, M. Lombard of Algiers to fessor of the Institute of Eth- terical pregnancy one of the
is ical literature.

the French Academy meeting in nology of France, says on the greatest medical curiosities.
Paris on Nov. 25, 1953. Occa- subject: “Clitoridotomy, or fe- Known scientifically as pseudo- # Answer 10. Virgin birth must
sionally a male child is born, ap- male circumcision, with its ac- eyesis, it is a condition in which be given serious consideration and
parently normal, yet bearing in companying ritual, is a major the woman firmly believes that study, said Dr. Stanley Balfour-
his abdominal cavity a little twin event in the lives of the girls of she pregnant and develops the
is Lynn in the English medical jour-
which he had absorbed during the Kissi people who inhabit usual characteristics and distin- nal The Lancet. He was discuss-
his fetal career. fewA cases live Upper Guinea (on the west coast guishing signs of pregnancy with- ing the assertion of a British wo-
on, apparently normal in health, of Africa). It is initiation into out being pregnant at all. She man who claimed that her eleven-
till adolescence brings with it a adulthood and is almost always misses her periods, or they be- year-old daughter had no father.
rapid and intensive growth. The immediately folio wed by mar- come extremely scanty, and her Dr. Balfour-Lynn stated that in-
change is caused by the increased riage, betrothal having taken abdomen swells gradually as it vestigation had been unable to
amount of the internal secretion place a long time before. To would in ordinary pregnancy,” disprove the mother’s claims. All
of the testes(male sex glands). evade this painful operation is The signs sometime deceive of the evidence obtained is con-
The miniature hidden fetus, an invitation to social ostracism.” even a physician on superficial sistent with what would be ex-
which has been feeding all the examination, as her abdomen may pected in a case of parthenogene-
time on the blood supply of its # Answer S, Dr. John Archer appear as large as that of a wo- sis (reproduction by development

big brother, receives its share of (the physician to receive a

first man 8 or 9 months pregnant. of an egg without fertilization
the testicular secretion. It also medical degree in America, in the Almost every one of these women by a sperm).
responds by intensive growth, and year 1810) relates that he con- “feels” movements of the
the Parthenogenetic development
soon an abdominal tumor is diag- fined a white woman, delivering “baby” and some of them actu- going full term and producing
nosed. An operation reveals it to her of twins, one of which was ally go through labor pains. live and healthy offspring can be
be a type of teratoma; not al- black and the other white! The Hippocrates, the “father of induced in mammals by cooling
ways a complete human body, woman informed Dr. Archer medicine,” some 2,300 years ago the fallopian tubes; many father-
but clearly recognizable as a sep- that she had had relations with described 12 cases he had ob- less rabbits have already been
arate human being. There does a white and colored man, re- served. One of the most inter- produced by this technique.
not seem to be any record of such spectively, within a short period
•
esting cases in history was the The time may come when hu-
28 FORECAST 1*57 29
 :

Answer Telegony de- TELEVISION OF THE FUTURE

man eggs can develop into babies • 12. is
(Continued from ptioe J7)
without fertilization by a male fined by the authoritative Gould’s
“the in- To telephone company’s language
sperm. However, up to the pres- Medical Dictionary as 30 miles above their heads.
fluence of a previous husband on illuminate this giant 60-mile rectifier now also in the labora-
ent time, the possibility of this translate both
tory stage will
process taking place in human the children of a subsequent one screen requires a great deal of
voices instantly by electronics.
[husband] through the same wo- power, but not as much as might
beings has not been conclusively
man.” In Germany during World be assumed. The reason both —
You may after you read this
—
:
proven.
War II men were warned not to mirror and projector are in a have some doubts as to whether
marry widows on account of the near-perfect vacuum, hence light your voice will really sound like
0 A miver 11 Humans . i t h w you. Your doubts are justified.
possibility that the offspring of transmission is nearly perfect, too.
are well authenticated
tails
the second husband might be The necessary electric illum- Your voice will not sound exact-
throughout medical history. Nor ly like yours after electronic
“tainted” by the first husband. inating power would be obtained
is the extra appendage too rare.
translation.
Dr. Maynard M. Metcalf, pro- While a controversial subject, from atomic energy.
Woman’s as far as humans and their off- Celestial-space television being
fessor of biology in the Pocket and mini-TV sets are
College at Baltimore, in his work spring are concerned, there is lit- especially geared for advertising, • im-
tle controversy in zoology. Says news, weather and other shorts a distinct possibility for the
on Organic Evolution, states
the great Charles Darwin “Care- : —because of the very fast motion mediate future. Even today such
(page 163)
know
“It is

have been instances

there
interesting to
ful breeders avoid putting a of the sky screen —no long pro- an (overcoat) pocket set could
built. People do want small
choice female of any animal to grams are feasible. The programs be
in which a human being has re- portable receivers as is best shown
an inferior male on account of can be transmitted directly from
tained, in an abnormal condition, boom of our “small”
the injury to her subsequent prog- a number of Earth stations to by the
the muscles of the ancestral tail.”
eny which may be expected to the space projector, as the mirror
portable TV sets. While these are
The American Text Book of measuring about
still fairly large,
follow. ...” passes over or near them.
Surgery calls attention to the oc-
The projector’s meteorologist •, 10 x 9 x 12 inches and weighing
casional births of children with
can give advanced weather 22 pounds, the trend is un-
tails,and suggests their early re- • These are just a few random too,
to their altitude. mistakable. People do want desk
facts to illustrate that vast sub- reports, due
moval by surgery. From an em-
which still baffles Ofgreat interest to the ad- and night-table TV
receivers that
bryological standpoint, every hu- ject of sexology
vertising fraternity are the inter-
can also he put in their overnight
man being begins life with a tail. modern humans, as it did their We
may be
national advertising possibilities, bag when traveling.
prehistoric, less learned predeces-
Strange as it may appear, the
sors. Does not behoove man inasmuch as sky television covers sure that future TV pocket
sets
unborn child, in its development it
will be very popular.
to take stock of himself and pon- the entire world,
in the womb, passes through Still smaller mini television re-
many phases of evolution. In the der that ancient truism of Plato,
ceivers are certain to be built in
uttered by that great philosopher # The Television-Phone, long
first half of the second month of
life in the womb, it does not dif- over 2,300 years ago:
,r
Knozv predicted, already exists in labora- the future —
just as will such tiny
wristwatches,
ones as television
tory models. It will become uni-
fer essentially in appearance from thyself!" forecast by the writer in 1945.
versal inthe not- too- distant fu-
other animals! While still impracticable today,
NOTICE: '
The Riddle of Sex” will be ture. You may wish to call an
ON THE COVER published in Esquire Mergaivne in their
important customer abroad, but because of the necessary bulky
Brook's Comet, from photograph by May 1957 Issue. This article cannot be cathode-ray tube, the problem is
E. E, Barnard, at Yerkes Observatory P
reproduced without permission from the you can’t speak Turkish, Jet
Oct* 19 f 1911, copyright holders*
us say, nor he English. The not un solvable in the future.
31
30 FORECAST 1957
 WIRELESS TELEGRAPH
The “Tellmco” Complete Outfit, comprising 1 inch Spark
Key, Coherer with Auto Decoherer and Sounder, 50 Onm F
Dry Battery, Send and Catch Wires, and Connections, with
and Diagrams. Will work up to 1 mile. Unprecedented
prices. Agents Wanted. Illustrated Pamphlet.
ELECTRO IMPORTING CO., 32 Park Place,
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955-56 marked
the 50th anniversary of
the first home
radio sold anywhere in the
world. Radio was not as we know it today
because then there was no broadcasting.
But wireless had been going strong for sev-
eral years and amateur radio had just begun.
Marconi and other pioneers were transmit-
ting commercial intelligence by the dot-and-
dash method.
The public knew littleor nothing about
wireless before 1905. As for a wireless borne
set it had not been born. In 1903-04, Hugo
Gernsback had been experimenting with a
small portable transmitter and receiving set
which he felt could be sold to the public.
It had to be low in cost so that everyone
could buy it.
Gernsback’s ambition was realized in 1905.
That year, he began to market the first home
or private radio set ever sold, in New York
City. As there were few wireless stations,
it was necessary to sell a transmitter, too,
( Condensed from Radio- Electronics magazine)
A w* ^ the set at home. While
one person was sending, the
ocher could receive. The trans-
mitter could be placed in one room
and the receiver would ring a bell in the
other, without intervening wires.
All this was accomplished with the
TELIMCO Wireless. The name is a con-
traction of the first letters of Gernsback’s
old pioneer firm, the Electro Importing
Company (E. I. Co.), famous between 1904
—
and 1915 the first radio mail-order house
in the world. In 1906 the little outfit went
into quantity production and was^ sold
through many large outlets in the U. S., in-j
eluding Macy’s, Gimbel’s, Marshall Field
and F. A.O. Schwarz, the country’s largest
toy establishment.
This radio set was first ad /erased in the
magazine Scientific American in the issue of
Jan. 13, 1906. It was the first home radio
set advertisement to appear in print any-
where in the world. (See ad.)
The complete set sold for $7.50. The
photograph shows an exact replica of the
original outfit, to commemorate the 50th
anniversary of the first home radio.
The historical set here described was ac-
quired by the Henry Ford Museum of Dear-
born, Mich. Donated by Hugo Gernsback,
it will be permanently exhibited in the
very elaborate radio. section of the huge
museum, beginning in April, 1957.