{"id":18145,"date":"2020-08-22T04:56:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T08:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=18145"},"modified":"2020-08-20T22:01:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T02:01:06","slug":"electric-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/electric-avenue\/","title":{"rendered":"electric avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EE January 1920 issue cover<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Over the years, any significant scientific discovery was soon promoted as a nostrum for curing any long-term illness without recourse to the nasty demands of scientific proof. Electricity, Radiation, Atomic Energy, etc. The list goes on including most recently “cures” for Covid-19 from the US President down. But other non-medical uses were touted, often ones very innovative for the time.<\/p>\n

In 1920, a popular American magazine was called “Electrical Experimenter<\/a>“. Its editor was Hugo Gernsback<\/a>. While mainly devoted to radio (wireless) and electricity, amongst the January 1920 articles was a photographic piece<\/a>\u00a0on page 904<\/a> showing how the relatively new electric lighting could be used to contact print indoors. Space between the light bulb and printing frame could allow a degree of dodging and burning if needed. I am surprised that the DPST (double-pole, single throw) knife switch under the shelf didn’t accidentally electrocute the photographer!<\/p>\n

NB. The post title comes from Eddie Grant’s 1982 protest song<\/a> of the same name sang by him in this 2006 upload to YouTube (this tune has a very low res video). As a youth, I read Gernsback’s Radio News<\/em> and occasionally Science and Mechanics<\/em> for many years. A tip of the hat and a big thanks to good friend George Dunbar for sharing his research with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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