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"In science fiction one can say a great many things that are unpalatable, … because it's expressed as science fiction you can slip it past their defenses."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Electric-Powered Caterpillar Shovels | ||
| Mining equipment powered by electricity. |
| Four hours later, dropping toward the Moon, Cartwright was amazed at the change that a month — and a few of his millions— had made in the central peak of Arzachel, now a hive of activity.
Busy figures in white swarmed over the mountain. Big electric-powered caterpillar shovels had already leveled the mile-high summit. And the excavations were already in progress, for he saw gray slopes of rubble beneath the black mouths of half a dozen tunnels. |
| Technovelgy from The Fortress of Utopia,
by Jack Williamson. Published by Startling Stories in 1939 Additional resources -
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Compare to the electric tractor from World of Purple Light (1936) by Warner Van Lorne.
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