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| Synthony A musical performance by robots. (From The Music Master [1953] by F.L. Wallace) |
| Magnetic Projector Projects a vortex of magnetic force. (From The Space Beyond [1976] by John W. Campbell) |
| Travel-Rug A rug that conveyed you around your house. (From Roll Out The Rolov! [1953] by Christopher Anvil) |
| Autosight Achronic Beam A range-finder for weaponry that isn't limited by time, for the ultimate in accuracy. (From Hindsight [1940] by Jack Williamson) |
| Air Scooter A flying personal vehicle. (From Space Double [1940] by Nat Schachner) |
| Razorgirl Surgically implanted blades under the fingernails. (From Neuromancer [1984] by William Gibson) |
| Mal de Void Literally, space sick. (From Off the Beam [1944] by George O. Smith) |
| Planetruck Huge vehicle for planetary surface transport. (From The Slave Ship to Andrigo [1951] by Ross Rocklynne) |
| Gyrocar Monorail A self-balancing vehicle. (From The Anarch [1944] by Malcolm Jameson) |
| Skew-Flip Turnover Used halfway to the destination by torch ships to slow for one's destination. (From Have Space Suit - Will Travel [1958] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Negative Acceleration Turning a torchship through a half-circle, thereby applying force in the direction of motion, slowing the ship down. (From Skylark of Space [1928] by E.E. 'Doc' Smith) |
| Turnover The point in a torchship's trajectory when it must flip over and point its fiery tail toward its destination to decelerate. (From Off the Beam [1944] by George O. Smith) |
| Cyclotronic Ore-Hurler Using the magnetic properties of an asteroid to send ore hurling across space! (From Exit From Asteroid 60 [1940] by D.L. James) |
| Voder Device that produces speech by purely mechanical means. (From Exit From Asteroid 60 [1940] by D.L. James) |
| Electro-Binox Binoculars with electronic focusing. (From A Specter is Haunting Texas [1968] by Fritz Leiber) |
| Forward Warehousing Using the trunks of cars as little warehouses. (From Stealing Worlds [2019] by Karl Schroeder) |
| Trans-Oceanic Rocket Ship Rocket-propelled airplanes making short work of long trips on Earth. (From Berlin to New York in One Hour [1930] by Max Valier) |
| Ray-Pistol An early version of the raygun. (From The War of the Planets [1929] by Harl Vincent) |
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