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- John Brunner
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| Deviatoscope | ||
| A device that registered how much your course diverged from what you intended. |
Joe and Al break through normal space into a strange new universe with different physical laws. What effect does this have on their instruments?
| The pointer of the velocimeter was swinging wildly against the brass pin at the zero line in an endeavor to push past it. As though it were trying to register negative velocity! The deviatoscope was wobbling in all directions at once. The gravito-statoscope was registering negative quantities, indicating tremendous repulsion. |
| Technovelgy from The Emperor of the Stars,
by Nat Schachner (w. AL Zagat). Published by Wonder Stories in 1931 Additional resources -
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See also the entry for the gravito-statoscope.
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