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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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