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Robot Guard
Very early reference to a guard robot.
(From The Turning Wheel [1954] by Philip K. Dick)
Robot Farmer
A humanoid robot used for agriculture.
(From The Turning Wheel [1954] by Philip K. Dick)
Mother-Scanner
A device that can see your future through your next birth.
(From The Turning Wheel [1954] by Philip K. Dick)
Electrono-Mirror
Focuses the sun's rays on a planetary surface for terraforming purposes.
(From The Day We Celebrate [1941] by Nelson S. Bond)
Blastick
A scorching beam weapon
(From The Traitor [1941] by Kurt von Rachen)
Metal Solvent Ray Thrower
Acts like a flame thrower in space.
(From Lost Rocket [1941] by Manly Wade Wellman)
Spacesuit Testing
A device and method for testing spacesuits.
(From The Shot Into Infinity [1929] by Otto Willi Gail)
Charted Planetoid Mines
Charting the planetoids and minor bodies for mining purposes.
(From The Day We Celebrate [1941] by Nelson S. Bond)
False Animal Repairman
A specialized roboticist who repaired robotic animals.
(From Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [1968] by Philip K. Dick)
Space Placers
Miners who use placer mining techniques adapted from Earth geology.
(From The Day We Celebrate [1941] by Nelson S. Bond)
Electric Kitchen
Food preparation in space requires safe equipment.
(From The Shot Into Infinity [1929] by Otto Willi Gail)
Pneumatic Suit
An airtight spacesuit.
(From The Shot Into Infinity [1929] by Otto Willi Gail)
Dewlog
A drug with the side-effect of virtually eliminating hunger.
(From The Traitor [1941] by Kurt von Rachen)
Rewriting History
Use of sophisticated technology to continuously rewrite the historical record.
(From 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) [1948] by George Orwell)
Harvesting Saturn's Rings
Mining the rings for industrial purposes.
(From The Computer Connection [1974] by Alfred Bester)
A-Bomb
Abbreviation for "atomic bomb".
(From Sixth Column [1941] by Anson MacDonald)
Epileptigenic Ray
Ray causes uncontrollable spasms in human subjects.
(From Sixth Column [1941] by Anson MacDonald)
Inertial Bracelet
Device to still hand tremors.
(From Psychohistorical Crisis [2001] by Donald Kingsbury)
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