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| Zoom Call Visaphone System An amazingly early description of a modern zoom call on a big screen monitor. (From John Jones's Dollar [1915] by Harry Stephen Keeler) |
| Transfer Cable Move between two ships in space. (From Dead Star Station [1933] by Jack Williamson) |
| Earth Normal Using the earth standard. (From The Pygmy Planet [1932] by Jack Williamson) |
| Trolling Tether Cable Simple fishing technique applied to moving cargo off-planet. (From Atom Drive [1956] by Charles Fontenay) |
| Doughpot A mass of white, dough-like protoplasm, ranging in size from a single cell to perhaps twenty tons of mushy filth. (From Parasite Planet [1935] by Stanley G. Weinbaum) |
| Robot Fish (Metal Fish) Fake flounders for sport fishermen on Martian canals. (From Atom Drive [1956] by Charles Fontenay) |
| Robot Introspection A robotic brain grows and learns about itself. (From Unforeseen [1949] by Roger P. Graham) |
| Robot Cat A biological feline with mechanical parts. (From The Cat and the King [1946] by Raymond F. Jones) |
| Locatimeter A method for a plane to know its location over the Earth. (From The Iron World [1937] by Otis Adelbert Kline) |
| Stratoplane An airplane that flies up to the edge of the atmosphere. (From Colossus [1934] by Donald Wandrei) |
| Time Loop A series of events repeats, the stream crosses over itself. (From The Time Entity [1936] by Eando Binder) |
| Electric Cat (Robot Cat) A robot presenting the appearance of a common domestic cat. (From Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [1968] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Powered Print-Book Part computer, part book. (From Prelude to Foundation [1988] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Shadow People Alien knowledge leads to alien results - for humans. (From Way Station [1963] by Clifford Simak) |
| Print-Book You’ve seen them. (From Prelude to Foundation [1988] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Observation Room Recreation Center A vast internal space in a space station, often used for exercise and amusement. (From The Power Planet [1931] by Murray Leinster) |
| Air Tank Flying Using little blasts of compressed air to fly around inside a space station. (From The Power Planet [1931] by Murray Leinster) |
| Foot Loops Hold yourself down in zero gravity situations with this low-tech device. (From The Power Planet [1931] by Murray Leinster) |
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