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  Books & Publications by Hugo Gernsback  (and links to his magazines)
Hugo Gernsback publications including the Gernsback Educational Library, Gernsback Radio Service Manual, Gernsback Library, Radio Craft Technical Series and the Radio Craft Electronics Reference Annual as well as other pamphlets and books.
Gernsback Collection
Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback
(1884 – 1967), was a Luxembourgish-American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher, best known for publications including the first science fiction magazine.
In April 1908 he founded Modern Electrics, the world's first magazine about both electronics and radio, In 1913, he founded a similar magazine, The Electrical Experimenter, which became Science and Invention in 1920. Later on, and more influentially, he published Radio News, which would have the largest readership among radio magazines in radio broadcasting’s formative years. He edited Radio News until 1929.
Life Magazine 1963
Article on Gernsback
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For more about
Hugo Gernsback,
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Thanks to Charles Baetsen for many of the technical and service publications
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The founder of science fiction and his other inventions
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Gernsback Periodicals 
Radio Review  Radio Listeners' Callbook
1925-1928		 Electrical Experimenter.
1913-1920
Short Wave
& Television
1930-1941		 Television News
Early TV magazine.
 
 Radio Craft
1929 to1948.		 Science &
Invention
1920-1931
 
Modern Electrics
Hobbyist & experimenter magazine. 		 1926
publication
"500 Radio Wrinkles"
 
 Experimental Electricity Course 3rd Edition 1919 Radio News 
Radio - TV News
1919 to 1959
 
Gernsback's Educational Library
#1 Build 4 Doerle Short Wave Sets #2 The Most Popular
All Wave Receivers		 #3 Alternating
Current		 #4 All About
Aerials		  #5 Beginners'
Radio Dictionary
#6 Fun With Radio #7 How to Read Radio Diagrams #8 Radio For Beginners #9 Simple Radio Experiments  #10 Television
Gernsback's Service Manuals
Service Manual
#1		 Service Manual
#2		 Service Manual
#2
Supp. 1		 Service Manual
#2
Supp. 2
Service Manual
#2
Supp. 3 		 Service Manual
#2
Supp. 4		 Service Manual
#2
Supp. 5		 Service Manual
#2
Supp. 6
Service Manual
#3 		 Service
Manual
#4 		 Service
Manual
#5		 Auto Radio Manual
#1 1933
       
Radio Service Manuals 1932  Service Manual
#7  1937		 Service Manual Master Index 1931-1937      
Gernsback's Miscellaneous Publications & Books
   
Radio Craft Reference Annual 1938 Wireless Course in 20 Lessons
Electro Importing
1915 Edition		 Wireless Course
1915 6th Edition
Training and a bit of history  		 Radio Educator
1927 Course 		 Supplement
Official Radio Service Manual
     
Wireless Course in 20 Lessons - 1912
 Radio For All
1922 		 Radio Craft
50 Years 		 Radio Craft Solar
1922
 
A Thousand and One Formulas
1920		 Official Shortwave Log & Call
1934 issue 		 Experimental Electricity Course
1916		 Radio
Encyclopedia
1927		 Gernsback
Radio for All
1922 
   
Short Wave Beginner's Book  1933
from Radio Craft		 Gernsback
Wireless Course
9th Edition 		 Gernsback Basic TV Course
Kravits 1962		 Wireless Course
 Gernsback,  Lescarboura & Secour
1921		 Wireless Course
 Gernsback Lescarboura & Secour
1918 9th Edition 
Radio-Craft Radio Electronics Reference Annual
       
      1938
  
         
1940-1941  1942  1943 1944   1945 
         
1946  1947 1948 1949   
Radio-Craft  & Gernsback Technical Series
This series began
as RadioCraft
booklets and then
became The Gernsback Library
with edition #39		        
  Radio Set Analyzers
#1 		 Modern Vacuum Tubes
#2		 The Super-heterodyne Book #3  Modern Radio Hook-Ups
4 
   
How to Become a Radio Service Man
#5 1932		 Bringing Electric Sets Up to Date
6 		 Radio Kinks and Wrinkles
7		 Radio Questions & Answers
#8		 Automotive Radio & Servicing
9
 
Home Recording and All About It
10 		 Point to Point Resistance Measurements
11		 Public Address Installation and Service
12		 ABC of Air Conditioning
13		 Pocket Radio Guide
14
 
ABC of Refrigeration
NEEDED
Practical Radio Circuits
16		 Servicing With Set Analyzers
17		 Point to Point Resistance
18		 Practical Radio Kinks & Short Cuts #19
     
The Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope
20 		 Breaking Into radio Servicing
21		 New Radio Questions & Answers
22		 Practical Public Address
23		 Automobile Radio
#24
       
Home Made Radio Test Instruments 25  Modern Battery Radio Sets
26		 Modern Radio Servicing Technique 27 All About Frequency Modulation 28 Handy Kinks and Short Cuts
#29
       
Unusual Patented Circuits 1944-1946
30 		 Radio Questions and Answers
31		 Advanced Service Technique
32		 Amplifier Builder's Guide
33		 Radio Electronic Service
34
         
Amateur Radio Builder's Guide
35 		 Radio Test Instruments
36		 Elementary Radio Servicing
37		  How to Build Radio Receivers
#38 		 Practical Disc Recording
#39  
 
The Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope
40 		 Public-Address
Guide
#41		 High Fidelity Techniques
42		 Model Control By Radio
#43 		 Basic Radio Course
#44 
 
Tube Radio Fundamentals
45 		 Television Technotes
46		 Radio TV Hints
47		 High Fidelity
48		 Radio & TV Test Instruments
49
 
TV Repair Techniques
50 		 Transistors Theory & Practice
#51		 The Oscilloscope
1954
#52		 Radio Control Handbook
53 		 Probes
54
Sweep & Marker Generators
#55 		 High Fidelity Circuit Design
NOT AVAILABLE		 The VTM: How it Works
57 		 Maintaining Hi FI Equipment
1956
#58 		 Servicing Record Changers
59 
     
Rapid TV Repair
60  		 Transistor Techniques 61  TV
 It's a Cinch
62		 Transistor Circuits
63		 Understanding Hi-Fi Circuits
64 
     
Servicing Color TV
65  		 Basic Audio Course
66		 Elements of Tape Recorder Circuits
67		 TV & Radio Tube Troubles
68 		 Electronic Hobbyist's Handbook
69 
   
Electronic Puzzles and Games
70  		 Audio Design Handbook
71 		 Oscilloscope Techniques
72 		 Audio Measurements
73 		 Model Radio Control
74
  soon  
Transistors: Theory & Practice
75 		 Servicing Transistor Radios
76 		 Guide to Mobile Radio
77		 Rapid Radio Repair
78		 Designing & Building Hi-Fi Furniture
79 
     
Stereo: How it Works
80 		 Printed Circuits
81		 Tubes & Circuits
82 		 Fun with Electricity
83		 Marine Radio for Pleasure Craft
84
 
How to Get the Most our of Your VOM
85  		 Installing Hi Fi Systems
86 		  Auto Radio Service Repair
#87		 Introduction to
 Hi-FI
88 		 Transistor Projects
89 
     
Hi-Fi Made Easy
90 		 Radio Control Manual
91		 Fundamentals of Semiconductors
92		 Radio Control Handbook
93		 Transistors How to Test Them
94 
 
New Shortcuts to TV Servicing
95 - 1958		 How To Fix Transistor Radios
96 		 Audio A-Z
97 		 The Story of Stereo: 1961
98 		 Industrial Electronics Made Easy
99 - 1961
 
100  TV Trouble Analysis
101 		 Practical TV Troubleshooting
102 		 Hints & Kinks for TV Radio Audio
103		 Basic Radio Course
104
  x  
Basic TV Course
105 		 Fun with Radio Controlled Models
106 		 107 The Oscilloscope
108		 109
         
110  Basic Transistor Course
111		 112 Elements of Electron Physics
113		 114
         
115  116 How to Build Tiny Electronic Circuits
117		 Electronics Data Handbook
118		 119
       
120 121 Advanced Radio Control
#122		 123 124
       
125 136 127 128 New Skill Building Transistor Projects
129
 
Basic Color Television Course
1972		 A New Way to Service Color TV  How to Test Almost Everything Electronic Television
Simplified
(1946 reissued 1961)		 Fun With Electricity
1960 (Reissued 1967)
       
Handbook of Electronic Tables
1965		 Servicing Synch Circuits
1967 		 Rapid Radio Repair
1959 		 Radio Servicing Made Easy
1961 -#1  		 Radio Servicing Made Easy
1961 -#2 
       
TV and Radio Tube Troubles
1958		 Handbook of Semiconductor Circuits 1960  Gernsback How to Make Money Operating Your Own Radio and TV Service Business Lane 1960    
Later Publications
         
Color TV Repair Clifford 1965  Fundamentals of Semiconductors Scroggie 1960  Horizontal Sweep Servicing Handbook Darr 1963  How to Get the Most Out of Your VOM Jaski 1960  II New Shortcuts to TV Servicing Lane 1958 
         
Industrial Electronics Made Easy Jaski 1961  New Shortcuts to TV Servicing Lane 1958  New Skill Building Transistor Projects 1966  Oscilloscope Techniques Haas 1958.  Practical Auto Radio Service Greenfield 1960 
         
Printed Circuits Moses 1959  Rapid Radio Repair Heath 1959  Rapid TV Repair Heath 1956  Servicing Color TV Middleton 1957  Servicing Record Changers Mileaf 1956 
       
Servicing Transistor Radio D'Airg 1958  The VTVM Samuel 1956.  TV and Radio Tube Troubles Heller 1958  TV Trouble Analysis 1961  How to Fix Transistor Radios & Printed Circuits Vol 1 
 
How to Fix Transistor Radios & Printed Circuits Vol 2  36 Time Tested Circuits Electronics Comics Power Supplies Vintage Radio
The Sky Buddy Saga
     
Unscrambling / Descrambling High Voltage Projects Book 1 1992  High Voltage Projects
Book 2 1992		 A to Z in Audio
Briggs   1961 		 33 Bench Tested Circuits
         
Designing and Building Hi-Fi Furniture
Markell  		 Transistors How to Test Them
1961 		 The Story of Stereo - 1881
Sunier 1960 		    
 
Service Manual
#2
Supp. 1