Frederic Brown:
Science Fiction Technology and Ideas
Fredric William Brown (b. 1906 - d. 1972) was an American author of detective novels and science fiction, and was for many years active in journalism. He published his first SF story in 1941.
Invention/Technology Source Work (Publication Date)

Automatonic Autosuggestive Subvibratory Superaccelerator
Time goes in a circle.

The Yehudi Principle (1944)

Fixed Star Advertising
In which the positions of the fixed stars are changed to form advertising.

Pi in the Sky (1945)

Machine Learning Training
Teaching a computer

ETAOIN SHRDLU (1942)

Repulsor
A device that inhibits the action of a spacewarp drive.

What Mad Universe (1949)

Robot Manifesto
A linotype machine demands its rights.

ETAOIN SHRDLU (1942)

Spacewarp Drive
A means of faster-than-light travel.

What Mad Universe (1949)

Star-Globe (3D Map)
A celestial star map, done in three dimensions.

Pi in the Sky (1945)

Supercalculator
Connecting all the computing machines of the universe!

Answer (1954)


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