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This strange looking helmet supposedly helped focus a person by rendering them deaf, piping them full of oxygen, and narrowing their vision to a tiny slit in the mask. (1925)

Ahhh.. to have been with the A.P.S. back when physics was more fun than SNL, or maybe even Python?
(I remembered the Liberty Bell March well-before.. a bitchin choice by the lads.)
Gernsback started the modern genre of science fiction in 1926

by founding the first magazine dedicated to it, Amazing Stories. The inaugural April issue comprised a one-page editorial and reissues of six stories, three less than ten years old and three by Poe, Verne, and Wells.[5][a] He said he became interested in the concept after reading a translation of the work of Percival Lowell as a child.

His idea of a perfect science fiction story was "75 percent literature interwoven with 25 percent science". He also played a key role in starting science fiction fandom, by publishing the addresses of people who wrote letters to his magazines.

So, the science fiction fans began to organize, and became aware of themselves as a movement, a social force; this was probably decisive for the subsequent history of the genre. He also created the term “science fiction”, though he preferred the term "scientifiction".

(And we imagine that Crowd Funding is new?)