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JULES VERNE’S TOMBSTONE AT AMIENS PORTRAYING HIS IMMORTALITY Contents for April The Plague of the Living Dead meee Mea Pb errill 8 oo Se 6 The Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes mG ee... Se 21 John Jones’s Dollar By Harry Stephen Keeler ..........---.i--.1-------- 25 White Gold Pirate By Merlin Moore Taylor .........--..-.++--+--------- 30 The Man in the Room By Edwin Balmer and gm B, Maaclhiar@ -..:..............-...-..-2 43 Hicks’ Inventions With a Kick The Automatic Self-Serving Dining Table By Henry Hugh Simmons ..............-..----.------ 52 The Balloon Hoax ey Paeee Aram P 0e..- oe 2c... 58 The Land that Time Forgot (A Serial in 3 Parts) (Part III) By Edgar Rice Burroughs ........ ae a ee 64 Our Cover depicts a scene from the story, “The Man in the Room,” by Edwin Balmer and William B. MacHarg, in which Trant, the psychological detective, is giving a word-association test .to the suspects, and the daughter of the murdered man. He is employing the aid of his elapsed-time-recording instrument. Vol.2 No.l April, 1927 Published by Experimenter Publishing Company, Inc. (H. Gernsback, Pres.; S. Gernsback, Treas.; R. W. DeMott, Publishers of SCIENCE & INVENTION, RADIO NEWS, Owners of Broadcast Station WRNY. In Our Next Issue: THE TIME MACHINE, by H. G. Wells. <Ac- cording to Einstein, time is a dimension, the same as any other physical dimension. It should be possible, therefore, to go backward or forward in this dimension, the same as we do in the others. Long before Einstein pronounced his theory, H. G. Wells had written this famous story, which tells how an inventor perfects a most ingenious machine which projects him into the future, so he can see what the world will look like, not hundreds, but thousands of years hence. THE STAR OF DEAD LOVE, by Will H. Gray. Here is an interplanetarian story which has an entirely new view point. It is one of the most charming tales it has been our good fortune re- cently to read. The scheme is so novel, the science so good, that we do not wish to give it away in advance. There is one thing, however, that we do predict, it is a story that will make a lasting impression on your mind. THE MAN WHO WAS, by Walter Burch. It is bad enough to die, but when you are legally pro- nounced dead and the lawyers take charge of your affairs, thinking you dead, things are apt to be unpleasant when you return to actual life. A number of curious twists may occur, and the new author presents a most unusual tangle that might happen if you should discover sometime that you were supposed to have been dead. THE SINGING WEAPON, by Bent Prout. Practically everything in nature has its funda- mental vibratory reaction. When you play the piano, you may suddenly hear a window pane or a porcelain vase emit weird sounds. This is be- cause the objects respond to their fundamental notes. 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