The electrical experimenter

And today, we're going to take you on a little trip through a thing called history, which is stored in that thing called memories... Remember that thing?

The frontpage of this periodical was usually some fantastic hand-drawn stuff like this one from May 1915 for instance. Just for reference, this was smack in the middle of World War 1... And after a few years that time started called "The Interbellum".
The Interbellum lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days) from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II (WWII).

But even then... You already had this thing called the internet, but it was mostly still on paper... Or at the very least there was a lot of dreaming about it put down on paper.

It's first page in may 1915 looked exactly like this.

And just to reference a few things... We're going to point out a few fascinating things in this living example of history that nobody disputes logically. This is all established fact, and nobody debates any of this... Yet... Everyone seems scared to believe most of if though, and that is a fascinating process isn't it? If you're capable of remembering it, for which you first need to be able to observe it.

Since... How can you remember something you can't see clearly?

So this periodical was chock full of "New technology"... but presented in fascinating ways... and then of course there was a whole lot of advertising too. Basically, there was more advertising in this periodical than there was content. So that paradigm isn't new at all either. How else were the presses and the paper going to be payed for? The magazine only cost 10 cents... while it held the mysteries of countless machines and technologies that could further mankind. It was sort of a technical library of the time, focused on anything having to do with electricity... So those 10 cents were definitely worth it.

Advertising in that periodical looked like this.

Wireless headsets... "decipher the internet" kind of books... Investing in military supplier companies... build scale models of things... nifty flashlight gadgets... crystals and healing things... manuals that will save your life... they even had "Wireless keys" ... that save you 6$ somehow and they only cost you 4$ so get yours now!

And there were always also some "human interest" stories in each volume, for instance this one about a new radio enthousiast meeting new people from places he didn't really know or understand yet.... Sort of like an idiot on the internet kind of thing.... The subtitle was "I make a wireless acquintance". :)

But their chapters were fascinatingly practical... for instance , there was the "how to make it department"... with technical diagrams down into every tiny little detail , so that everyone who read these things would have all the knowledge they needed to make it themselves too.

And "The Constructor" which was earily similar to the "How to make it department" , so I never understood why that required two separate chapters, but anyways.

It also always updated on new patents that were awarded...

So 1915 was the time where "inventions" like ...

• The advertising lamp
• Telephone receiver
• Electric Auto signal
• Electric relay
• Battery connector
• Storage battery plate
• A.C. vibrating rectifier (Hey... I didn't come up with this name... they did)
• Mail Box alarm
• Curious Electric motor
• Electric horn
• Novel electric insulator
  

And my favorite of that issue... The wonderful... "Electro-pneumatic sound box". The boombox and everything you use today was basically invented by some fella in 1915 apparently. :)

And basically , the exact same bull*** was massively being sold on the internet then, just as it was now.

And yet things were also remarkably simple at the same time.

But there was also this very fascinating article in this issue in the month of March in 1916 , literally smack in the middle of WW1 that was about places that had a lot of oil, and urgently needed "educations"... for which warships and giant armies were mustered all over the world to go... bring... peace and tranquility!

And while that is a drawing of a machine... Back then, in 1916 in Egypt , that machine actually existed and it actually worked too. It was capable of pumping up massive amounts of water for irrigation on scales that were simply uninmaginable at the time. This one simple machine made out of mirrors, copper pipes and a steam engine basically but all the gunboats to shame instantly. Because it didn't need anything else than a plumber and a mechanic to have infinite power without any toxic or extractionary side-effects.

After some battles and armies moving around and bombings and stuff... you know... that thing called WW1... The machine was gone.

Remember that time? This stuff also happened around the same place at the same time.

On December 9, 1917, five weeks after the Balfour Declaration, British troops led by General Sir Edmund Allenby took Jerusalem from the Turks; Turkish forces in Syria were subsequently defeated; an armistice was concluded with Turkey on October 31, 1918; and all of Palestine came under British military rule.

and then there's also the news today by the way... And there's new gadgets and stuff to buy too... Or did we all just see those things already in this article?

That's strange isn't it? That a paper version of the internet from over 100 years still says the exact same things , still sells the same things... but there's one big difference with this new version of the internet though.

These days you're only allowed to use things you can't make yourself... and you definitely don't understand them either... And you seem to have a hard time remember that... or anything else for that matter.

Luckily... We here at the Protean Hydroharvest project still know all these things though.

(Since some of us actually made a lot of those things the big techies now use on the current internet... so we kind of understand it better than the ones using it today even.... but don't tell them ;) )

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