Radio-Electronics
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[[Image:Radio Electronics Cover June 1949.jpg|thumb|right|The June 1949 issue of ''Radio-Electronics'' with ''Radio-Craft'' tag line.]]
'''''Radio-Electronics''''' magazine was published under various titles from [[1929]] to [[2002]]. [[Hugo Gernsback]] started it as ''Radio-Craft'' in [[1929]]. The title was changed to ''Radio-Electronics'' in [[1948]] and in [[1992]] the name was changed to '''''Electronics Now''''' and after [[1999]] it was merged with ''[[Popular Electronics]]'' to become ''[[Poptronics]]''. [[Gernsback Publications]] went out of business in December [[2002]].
== Hugo Gernsback ==
In 1904 Hugo Gernsback established Electro Importing Company to sell radio components and electrical supplies by mail order. The catalogs had detailed instructions on projects like a wireless telegraph outfit and were the predecessor of his first magazine, ''Modern Electrics'' (April 1908). In May 1913 he started another magazine, The ''[[Electrical Experimenter]]''. Gernsback was an enthusiastic supporter of amateur radio. Gernsback stated a magazine devoted to radio, ''Radio Amateur News'' (July 1919.) The title was shortened to ''Radio News'' in July 1920.<ref>{{cite journal
| author = T. R. Kennedy
| year = 1958 | month = April
| title = From Coherer to Spacistor
| journal = Radio-Electronics
| volume = 29 | issue = 4 | pages = pp 45–59
| publisher = Gernsback Publications, Inc}} </ref>
''Radio News'' was a very successful magazine that enabled Hugo Gernsback and his brother Sidney to build a publishing empire.'' [[Amazing Stories]]'' was introduced in April 1926 and was the first magazine devoted to science fiction. In 1925 they launched the radio station WRNY. This was the first radio station to broadcast experimental television starting in 1928.
In February 1929 Gernsback was forced into bankruptcy. See [[Experimenter Publishing bankruptcy]]. Everything was sold to pay off the creditors.<ref>{{cite journal
| quotes = Bankruptcy de luxe
| title = Curtis Follows Hearst
| journal = Time Magazine | publisher = Time
| date = 8 April 1929
| url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,732245-2,00.html
| accessdate = 2007-05-30
}}</ref> At the last court proceeding in April 1929, Hugo Gernsback announced a new publishing company. "Mr. Gernsback said after the hearing that his new magazines would be Radio Craft, [[Wonder Stories|Science Wonder Stories]] and Air Wonder Stories and that the first issues would be out in June."<ref>{{cite news
| title = Gernsbacks Deny Diverting Assets
| work = New York Times
| page = 13
| date = 1929-04-18
}} </ref>
== Radio Electronics ==
''Radio-Electronics'' was aimed at electronics professionals such as radio and TV repairmen. The audience was mainly males, with the tagline on the cover in the 1970s reading "For Men with Ideas in Electronics".
Around [[1971]], many authors who used to contribute to ''Popular Electronics'' started writing for Radio-Electronics. There was some competition in digital logic projects between ''Radio-Electronics'' and ''Popular Electronics''. In September [[1973]], ''Radio-Electronics'' published [[Don Lancaster]]'s "TV Typewriter" and in July [[1974]] it published Jon Titus's "[[Mark-8]] Personal Minicomputer". However, ''Popular Electronics'' published the most famous project in January [[1975]] with the [[MITS Altair 8800]] computer.
== References ==
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== Further reading ==
{{cite journal
| author = Hugo Gernsback
| year = 1932
| month = March
| title = The Old E.I.C. Days
| journal = Radio-Craft
| volume = 9
| issue = 9
| pages = pp 572–575, 630–64
| publisher = Radcraft Publications, Inc
}}
{{cite journal
| author = T. R. Kennedy
| year = 1958
| month = April
| title = From Coherer to Spacistor
| journal = Radio-Electronics
| volume = 29
| issue = 4
| pages = pp 45–59
| publisher = Gernsback Publications, Inc
}}
{{cite journal
| author = Fred Shunaman
| year = 1979
| month = October
| title = 50 Years of Electronics as seen through the pages of Radio-Electronics
| journal = Radio-Electronics
| volume = 50
| issue = 10
| pages = pp 42–69
| publisher = Gernsback Publications, Inc
}}
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[[Category:Science and technology magazines]]