What constitutes pulp science? Pulp science traces a direct line of descent from Frankenstein's Journals (actually the journals of Johann Konrad Dippel). Covering experiments taking place between 1702 and 1730, the journals detail Dippel's highly successful research into the use of alchemical principles to re-animate dead tissue. Along with the remarkable work of Griffen, Jekyll, Giberrne, Nemo, and others, these form the basis of so called "Mad Science".

Mad Science is distinct from more traditional research in that

(1) its results, while demonstrable, are not always reproducible,
(2) the results of experiments often seem to depend on the experimenter, and
(3) core principles and key data are often concealed by experimenters, and must be re-discovered by the researchers that follow. This is compounded by the (possibly apocryphal) tendency for the records of so-called Mad Scientists to be systematically concealed or destroyed, and for their submitted papers to be frozen out, often unfairly, from peer reviewed publications.

The leading Mad Scientists of the 1930s include Tesla, Zarkov, and Luther. (courtesy of OddHat, in a Pulp Hero forum thread).

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Modern Mechanix -- A blog featuring "Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today." Good resources of magazine articles to accompany some imaginative covers. Subjects range from chemistry, to electronics to aviation to archeology to engineering.

Popular Mechanics Cover Gallery (1902- ) - Great images of technological wonders...

Great Inventions (1932) - Digitized book by Charles Greeley Abbot detailing scientific advances that would have occurred in the Pulp Era. Book is part of The History of Science and Technology Collection at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

The ABCs of Science - a juvenile textbook, courtesy of ManyBooks' Pulp category