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Science Fiction Fan, v. 1, no. 4, October 1936

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4  THE SCIENCE FICTION FAN

these groups will have their own magazine.
And now I come to the last magazine, the soon to be published Fanciful Tales. The reason i did not take Fanciful Tales up with the other magazines is because it is definitely not a newsstand magazine. Fanciful happens to be the first magazine to bring out as a regular feature the Future Pure Phantasy. Along with this there is a selection of excellent science and weird fiction of a general type and conforming more or less with the present day standards. Fanciful Tales' contents range to the short side, that is short stories, short-short stories and a new kind, the "midget-tale".
In the next instalment of this series (that is if the editor can stand it) I shall take up a short discussion of the various fan magazines along the same lines as this article has outlined the major publications.

TO WHAT ADVANCEMENT?
By
E.J. CARNELL

In an easily-missed corner of the 45th Chemists' Exhibition, which opened in London, England, late in September, there reposes plain, unlabelled bottle which has cause more excitement than all the other exhibits put together. The pay, glycerine-like liquid it contains will, it is claimed, one day supply the world with power when oil and coal are exhausted.
The liquid is a chlorinated diphenyl compound called "Arochlor" discovered some years ago by an American firm, and up to now used industrially in the moisture-proofingg of paper, the cooling of electrical transformers and as a constituent of cellulose varnishes. Its possible value as a heat-transfer agent was discovered by Dr. C.G. Abbott, secretary of the Smithosonian Institute at Washington, renowned for his research work insofar radiation.
The machine which Dr. Abbott has invented, at present only a laboratory model, was demonstrated for the first time at the 3rd World Power Conference in Washington in September, and consists of aluminum mirrors which focus the sun's rays only concentric glass tubes, through one of which runs the Arochlor. The chemical is heated to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and the heat is transferred to water in a boiler.
So another sft. dream of the future has come a step nearer to perfection. Hardly a month passes without some manifesto in the press of advancing Mankind....a radio tube that will work as power, screened grid, pentode or frequency changer, will, in fact, do the world of about 60 different tubes, and is called an "all-stage" tube priced at about $3.00.
The success of the English television tests have been assured; thus, it is claimed, leading the world in television as neither Germany, Rance of U.S.A. are in more than the experimental stage yet, and teleradios are not available to the public in those countries.
At the Radio Exhibition in London I saw the programs televised on a 12 hour series through several different types of receivers, and found that the depth light an shade in the pictures was more clearcut than the motion picture, though there was a slight tendency towards a flicker or shimmer

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4 THE SCIENCE FICTION FAN these groups will have their own magazine. And now I come to the last magazine, the soon to be published Fanciful Tales. The reason i did not take Fanciful Tales up with the other magazines is because it is definitely not a newsstand magazine. Fanciful happens to be the first magazine to bring out as a regular feature the Future Pure Phantasy. Along with this there is a selection of excellent science and weird fiction of a general type and conforming more or less with the present day standards. Fanciful Tales' contents range to the short side, that is short stories, short-short stories and a new kind, the "midget-tale". In the next instalment of this series (that is if the editor can stand it) I shall take up a short discussion of the various fan magazines along the same lines as this article has outlined the major publications. TO WHAT ADVANCEMENT? By E.J. CARNELL In an easily-missed corner of the 45th Chemists' Exhibition, which opened in London, England, late in September, there reposes plain, unlabelled bottle which has cause more excitement than all the other exhibits put together. The pay, glycerine-like liquid it contains will, it is claimed, one day supply the world with power when oil and coal are exhausted. The liquid is a chlorinated diphenyl compound called "Arochlor" discovered some years ago by an American firm, and up to now used industrially in the moisture-proofingg of paper, the cooling of electrical transformers and as a constituent of cellulose varnishes. Its possible value as a heat-transfer agent was discovered by Dr. C.G. Abbott, secretary of the Smithosonian Institute at Washington, renowned for his research work insofar radiation. The machine which Dr. Abbott has invented, at present only a laboratory model, was demonstrated for the first time at the 3rd World Power Conference in Washington in September, and consists of aluminum mirrors which focus the sun's rays only concentric glass tubes, through one of which runs the Arochlor. The chemical is heated to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and the heat is transferred to water in a boiler. So another sft. dream of the future has come a step nearer to perfection. Hardly a month passes without some manifesto in the press of advancing Mankind....a radio tube that will work as power, screened grid, pentode or frequency changer, will, in fact, do the world of about 60 different tubes, and is called an "all-stage" tube priced at about $3.00. The success of the English television tests have been assured; thus, it is claimed, leading the world in television as neither Germany, Rance of U.S.A. are in more than the experimental stage yet, and teleradios are not available to the public in those countries. At the Radio Exhibition in London I saw the programs televised on a 12 hour series through several different types of receivers, and found that the depth light an shade in the pictures was more clearcut than the motion picture, though there was a slight tendency towards a flicker or shimmer