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| Sunpower Station An orbiting solar collector, beaming energy down to Earth. (From The Last Question [1956] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Autonomous Lifeboat A water-going craft whose AI is devoted to the safety of its passengers. (From The Lifeboat Mutiny [1955] by Robert Sheckley) |
| Planetary Defense Keeping the Earth safe! (From When the Green Star Waned [1925] by Nictzin Dyalhis) |
| Giant Outdoor Display Projecting a building-sized image. (From The Shape of Things To Come [1936] by H.G. Wells) |
| Mechanical Calculator A device capable of extraordinary feats of computation (From The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade [1845] by Edgar Allen Poe) |
| Automaton Chess Master A man-shaped device that plays flawless chess. (From The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade [1845] by Edgar Allen Poe) |
| Kinematograph A vast public screen or theater. (From A Story of the Days to Come [1899] by H.G. Wells) |
| Piggyback-Slurp Terminal Interception of a live data stream using an interposed terminal. (From Congo [1980] by Michael Crichton) |
| Martian Iceboat When the open water on your planet has frozen all the way to the bottom, you need to travel on ice. (From A Martian Romance [1999] by Kim Stanley Robinson) |
| Moving Platform Long moving sidewalk bands that provided transportation. (From A Visitor From The Twentieth Century [1928] by Harold Donitz) |
| Heat Trap Using the greenhouse effect to terraform a planet or moon. (From Farmer in the Sky [1950] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Great Pain of Space A kind of fatal space sickness afflicting humans who travel in space. (From Scanners Live in Vain [1950] by Cordwainer Smith) |
| Aircoat A flying device. (From Scanners Live in Vain [1950] by Cordwainer Smith) |
| Steam Cart Horse A steam-powered autonomaton horse to pull a wagon or cart. (From Frank Reade and his Steam Horse [1883] by Harry Enton) |
| Automated Bomber A bombing plane that automatically targets, drops, returns for fuel and more munitions, all automatically. (From Flying Dutchman [1951] by Ward Moore) |
| Automatic Gun A large artillery device that is entire automated. (From The Gun [1952] by Philip K. Dick) |
| News-Machine An automated device that presents a variety of different broadcast forms on the same device. (From The Swordsman of Sarvon [1932] by Charles Cloukey) |
| Automatic Loader Entirely automated system for replenishing the arms on a bomber plane. (From Flying Dutchman [1951] by Ward Moore) |
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