''The Electrical Experimenter'' was an American technical science

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that was published monthly. It was established in May 1913, as the successor to '' Modern Electrics'', a combination of a magazine and mail-order catalog that had been published by Hugo Gernsback starting in 1908. ''The Electrical Experimenter'' continued from May 1913 to July 1920 under that name, focusing on scientific articles about

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, and continued with a broader focus as ''Science and Invention'' until August 1931. The magazine was edited by Hugo Gernsback until March 1929, when the Experimenter Publishing empire of Sidney and Hugo Gernsback was forced into

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; after that date it was edited by Arthur H. Lynch. Under the editorship of Gernsback, it also published some early

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; he published several of his own stories in the magazine starting in 1915, and encouraged others through a 1916 editorial arguing that a "real electrical experimenter, worthy of the name" must have imagination and a vision for the future. Between August 1917 and July 1919,

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wrote five articles for the magazine,"Tesla Bibliography"
/ref> and also published parts of his autobiography in segments in several issues in 1919.

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Scanned copies
via archive.org

via americanradiohistory.com
Online archive
of the covers

''The Electrical Experimenter'', January, 1917
An archive of ''The Electrical Experimenter'' magazine
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