July 1939

From The Space Library

The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society listed Arthur C. Clarke as Treasurer. Artist R.A. Smith is listed as Organising Secretary.

Dr Edwin F. Northrup of the Ajax Electrothermic Corporation in Trenton New Jersey begins a correspondence with the BIS through treasurer Clarke. Northrup is a theoretical pioneer of electromagnetic propulsion and author of the science fiction novel "Zero to Eighty".

City of the Cosmic Rays a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner appears in Astounding Science Fiction magazine.

“Giant New Telescopic Eye Soon Will Peer Into Unexplored Depths of Space” article appears in National Geographic Magazine