The event will be held Wednesday evening, November 3, 2004, at
6:30 at:
The Luxembourg House
17 Beekman Place
(50th Street and East River)
New York, NY 10022
An invitation with full a full description of the program is available
online.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP by November 1, 2004 to The Luxembourg
House by calling (212) 888-6664 or writing to newyork.cg@mae.etat.lu.
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Shortly before his death in 1967, Hugo Gernsback arranged to donate
his personal papers, including correspondence and manuscripts of
his many articles and editorials, together with complete sets of
his various magazine publications — many now rare — to
Syracuse University Library. The Hugo Gernsback Papers provide a
centerpiece to the Library’s other special collections of science
fiction materials. A description of the collection can also be found
online.
About Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback was born in Luxembourg on August 16, 1884. At the
age of 19, he emigrated to America and became a naturalized US citizen.
He passed away in New York on August 19, 1967, at the age of 83.
His interest in the future of all things electrical set in motion
the history of American Science Fiction as we know it. Gernsback
started early in this mode, as a founder of Electric Importing Co
in 1905. A year later, he built the first “home radio set”
in the world.
His first magazine, Modern Electrics, came out in 1908. Amazing
Stories, the first publication exclusively dedicated to “scientification”
was launched in 1926 and became an immediate success. It was to
be followed by Wonder Stories in 1929.
Despite the depression, Gernsback Publications, Inc. became a viable
force. In 1911 Gernsback developed Ralph 124C 41+ which began a
sequence of events that ended in a visionary early science fiction
novel of the same name. Gernsback was a dreamer and a somehow misplaced
inventor. At his death, however, he held 80 patents. His visionary
skills foretold of plastic, stainless steel, jukeboxes and tape
recorders, solar power, television, and numerous other inventions.
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