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...Hugo Gernsback, publisher of Radio-Electronics magazine, has a new idea. In his March issue, he presents his conception of a Multiplex Video receiver -a television set that enables viewers to watch all channels at the same time...
...appreciate a Hugo Gernsback idea, one must first know something about Hugo. He is 79. He is a member of the American Physical Society and a friend of people like David Sarnoff and Lewis Strauss. He coined the word television. He thought of radar roughly six months before bats did. From weightlessness to squeeze-package food, he described the problems of space travel as early as 1929. Every Christmas he puts out a pamphlet called Forecast, and in it he has not only predicted some inventions that have already come to be (like the telescoping ramps that hook...
Freedom of Choice. As Gernsback inventions go, the new multi-eyed TV set is of modest flair. It is a conventional set with built-in satellites, intended to solve the problems of TV critics, network executives who want to scout the opposition, watchers of election returns, and families engaged in intramural brawls over who wants what channel. In the middle of Gernsback's new set is the big traditional eye, and flanking it are vertical rows of small, 3-in. screens, as many as are necessary to cover all channels that broadcast in the owner's area. This...
Hypnobioscope and the Subconscious. Not all his predictions have panned out. The inventions which Gernsback likes best are the "osophone," an instrument designed to enable deaf people to hear through their teeth, and the "hypnobioscope," an electrical device for educating people while they sleep. During the war Gernsback has advanced a great variety of military ideas, all described in plausible detail, including a flying tank which would shed its wings when it landed, and radio-controlled vehicles which might be sent ahead of an army to explode land mines...
Alumni of genial, ruddy Hugo's numerous publications today hold many important positions in the U.S. radio industry. They fondly call Gernsback "the old buzzard." At 59, Hugo presides over a shabby Manhattan office where he has a death mask of his good friend, the late, great, grandly eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla.* Hugo Gernsback has never made much money out of his astounding ideas...