Worldwide Engineering - Launched in 1925 by Hugo Gernsbeck, The Isolator was designed to encourage focus and concentration by rendering the wearer deaf, by pumping the helmet full of pure oxygen, and
![FUN FACT: Hugo Gernsback is sometimes called the father of science fiction. though he had not written one himself. In 1920, he designed a helmet that would shout out externel sounds and FUN FACT: Hugo Gernsback is sometimes called the father of science fiction. though he had not written one himself. In 1920, he designed a helmet that would shout out externel sounds and](https://i.redd.it/9dxra9kcbux51.jpg)
FUN FACT: Hugo Gernsback is sometimes called the father of science fiction. though he had not written one himself. In 1920, he designed a helmet that would shout out externel sounds and
![The Antidote to Writer's Block. Amazing 1925 invention — lost to… | by John Emmerling | Storyville Stories | Medium The Antidote to Writer's Block. Amazing 1925 invention — lost to… | by John Emmerling | Storyville Stories | Medium](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1091/1*XTRVJGiBG51Aey0wt7KHhA.png)
The Antidote to Writer's Block. Amazing 1925 invention — lost to… | by John Emmerling | Storyville Stories | Medium
![The Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions & Increase Productivity (Created by SciFi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback) | Open Culture The Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions & Increase Productivity (Created by SciFi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback) | Open Culture](https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/05/02222508/Science_and_Invention_July_1925_cover-scaled.jpeg)
The Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions & Increase Productivity (Created by SciFi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback) | Open Culture
![The Isolator” in “The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction” on Manifold @uminnpress The Isolator” in “The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction” on Manifold @uminnpress](https://manifold.umn.edu/system/ingestion_sources/attachments/8/7/5/original-af86aec8882b4d575be21c13d90699d28023a928.jpg)
The Isolator” in “The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction” on Manifold @uminnpress
![The Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions & Increase Productivity (Created by SciFi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback) | Open Culture The Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions & Increase Productivity (Created by SciFi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback) | Open Culture](https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/05/02221504/isolator2.jpeg)