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Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660 by Hugo Gernsback
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Gernsback, Hugo, 1884-1967
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"Ralph 124C 41+" by Hugo Gernsback is a science fiction novel serialized beginning in 1911 and published in book form in 1925. Set in the year 2660, it follows a brilliant inventor who saves a woman's life using remote energy transmission, then later rescues her from a villain in outer space. Despite being criticized for poor writing, the novel remarkably predicted technologies like television, radar, solar energy, videophones, tape recorders, and space travel decades before their invention. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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