[3] In 1905 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).

[4] Radio News was a very successful magazine that enabled Hugo Gernsback and his brother Sidney to build a publishing empire.

The material shortages eased and the growing electronics industry during the war led to more advertisers and readers.

Technological advances such as the transistor, color television, stereo audio, computers and space satellites were prominently covered in the 1950s and 1960s.

Hugo Gernsback would write an editorial each issue; and the magazine would publish stories about the future such as automobiles automatically guided down the turnpikes of tomorrow.

The tag line on the Radio-Electronics cover from July 1970 to February 1974 was "For Men With Ideas In Electronics".

[10] In April 1972 the cover did not have the tag line and there was a letter to the editors from a female reader titled "Women With Ideas In Electronics."

In one last affront to the feminist movement, the June 1974 cover of Radio-Electronics has a young lady in a bikini by a swimming pool with that month's feature project, a guitar amplifier.

However, Popular Electronics published the most famous project in January 1975 with the MITS Altair 8800 computer.

After Popular Electronics went under after attempting to become a computer magazine in the early 1980s, Radio-Electronics published many eye-catching feature projects like a series on cable TV descramblers.