some scans of 1917, 1918 "Electrical Experimenter" magazine

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u/wbeaty/

Great material, If only the scans were hi res enough to be legible :(

NT

NT wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@n5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com:

I have no problem reading it in Foxit. What can't you make out?

Mark L. Fergerson

Thanks, downloaded 24 of them( yummy) :)

Deathrays

aircraft

Sometimes scanned material can be hard to read on a typical computer monitor.

Try to print it on paper.

Sometimes the printed copy is easier to read on paper than on the monitor.

n0/mode/2up

n0/mode/2up

I found the web versions unreadable but the pdf and bw_pdf versions quite good, no problem reading the 5 articles written by Tesla describing his inventions including the rotating magnetic field, and his time working for Edison.

Since the link is mangled above, here it is again:

Tesla's 5 article series runs from Vol 6 No 10 (Feb 1919) to Vol 7 No 2 (June 1919)

Yeah, I figured it out. Only issue now is that evince reader is extremely slow.

NT

Also there's a separate website which archives the covers as GIF:

Also, long ago I bought some from a guy who's selling PDF copies. His issue numbers went much farther forward, like 1920s IIRC. Go google, if he still exists.

((((((((((((((((((((((( ( ( (o) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty Research Engineer beaty chem washingtonedu UW Chem Dept, Bagley Hall RM74 billb, eskimocom Box 351700, Seattle, WA 98195-1700 ph 206-543-6195

Nice site, but it is a bit difficult to look inside them.......

It does help identify the actual month and year of a given issue; the numbers on the other site are off by a bit.

Mark L. Fergerson

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Yeah, I used magazineart as the "index," especially when seeing these things pop up on eBay occasionally. Some of the eBay ones are almost perfect, like just printed. Obviously they're taken out of library magazine archive hardcover volumes. If they spent the time physically squeezed hard in library stacks, the O2 only destroys the paper slowly. (Or, just store your old comics in piles by the couch, as long as you keep the room filled with N2 and wear breathing equipment.)

I found that guy who sells PDFs commercially:

((((((((((((((((((((((( ( ( (o) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty Research Engineer beaty, chem washingtonedu UW Chem Dept, Bagley Hall RM74 billb, eskimocom Box 351700, Seattle, WA 98195-1700 ph 206-543-6195

Bill Beaty wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@y13g2000prb.googlegroups.com:

I didn't say the numbering thing was a deal-breaker! A little keyboarding is still within my capabilities. ;>)

Also, a huge formal thank you for posting this in the first place. I love those old magazines, with wildly Gernsbackian stuff like Death Rays and Zeppelin hubs on most tall buildings, creepy prefiguring of Big Brother like microphones hidden in theatres so managers can "spice up" a (live) show as needed per audience commentary on the fly, and all sorts of fun down to Earth practical stuff everywhere.

Well, practical if you have one of the Gilbert chemistry sets I had as a kid. Though mine didn't come with Radium salts...

Mark L. Fergerson