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| Aircycle Motorcycle for the air with gravimetric coils instead of wheels. (From Buck Rogers, 2430 AD [1929] by Philip Nowlan (w/D. Calkins)) |
| Spinner Ship Pinwheel rockets created centrifugal forces like gravity. (From Buck Rogers, 2430 AD [1929] by Philip Nowlan (w/D. Calkins)) |
| Circuit Inhibiting Destructiveness Ensuring that robots take on the responsibility of pleasing their masters, and obeying their orders. (From To Please The Master [1958] by Margaret St. Clair) |
| Gyrocosmically Stabilized Interplanetary Rocket A mouthful, perfect for trips to the larger asteroids. (From Buck Rogers, 2430 AD [1929] by Philip Nowlan (w/D. Calkins)) |
| Star-Globe (Ship) A spherical spacecraft. (From Brother Worlds [1951] by Raymond Z. Gallun) |
| Retard-Jets Rockets to slow down. (From Brother Worlds [1951] by Raymond Z. Gallun) |
| Anti-Gravity Drive Electric force curves space. (From The Last Evolution [1932] by John W. Campbell) |
| Van Goom's Gambit A chessboard pattern that unhinges the mind of any player who sees it. (From Von Goom's Gambit [1966] by Victor Contoski) |
| BLIT (Secret Basilisk) The Berryman Logical Image Technique can "shock" an AI trained to do pattern recognition. (From Blit [1988] by David Langford) |
| Hyperstereoscope A book of three-dimensional pages. (From The Book of Worlds [1929] by Miles J. Breuer) |
| Engineless Automobile Hover No engine, no steering wheel, yet it runs. (From An Adventure in Time [1930] by Francis Flagg) |
| Tabletop Display A display monitor built into a flat, horizontal table surface. (From An Adventure in Time [1930] by Francis Flagg) |
| Predictograph Capable combining and projecting hundreds of complex curves into the future. (From Futility [1929] by S.P. Meek) |
| Sun Plant (Solar Motor) A huge system of mirrors collects light and focuses it on a boiler for energy. (From The Lotus-Engine [1940] by Raymond Z. Gallun) |
| Transparent Aluminum Invisible light steel. (From The Space Hermit [1929] by E. Edsel Newton) |
| Lifebox A device that captures a person's life experience in software. (From Soft Death [1986] by Rudy Rucker) |
| Bard A machine that invents randomized stories and can read them out loud or animate them for viewing. (From Someday [1956] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Automated Laboratory A fully automated machinery of invention. (From The Shores of Death [1964] by Michael Moorcock) |
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