Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction
by
Hugo Gernsback
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
In 1905, a young Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg founded an electrical supply shop in New York. This inventor, writer, and publisher Hugo Gernsback would later become famous for launching the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926. But while science fiction’s annual Hugo Awards...