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Rejuvenation (Women) Restoring youthful appearance, vigor and cognition.
(From Black Oxen [1923] by Gertrude Atherton) |
Automated City A fully automated, complete town.
(From Mechanopolis [1913] by Miguel de Unamuno) |
Autonomous Crane Truck Multipurpose self-actuated truck with crane and chain.
(From Paradise and Iron [1930] by Miles J. Breuer) |
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) |
Automatic Gun A large artillery device that is entire automated.
(From The Gun [1952] by Philip K. Dick) |
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