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| Security Restraint Field A force field that restricts personal movement. (From Between Planets [1951] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Disperser Device that gives an electric shock to anyone who touches a vehicle. (From Sagramanda [2006] by Alan Dean Foster) |
| Municipal Cattle Remover A device to pick cattle up and place them in a truck for later dispersion in the countryside. (From Sagramanda [2006] by Alan Dean Foster) |
| Autocab An fully automated taxi cab. (From Between Planets [1951] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Martian Perambulator A mechanized transport for heavy gravity environments for beings born in lower gravity environments. (From Between Planets [1951] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Slideway A slidewalk, or moving walkway, that moves people forward. (From Beyond This Horizon [1942] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Winged Rocket Shuttle A sort of plane that briefly reached space while traveling between points on a planet. (From Between Planets [1951] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Dispensing Tooth A device shaped like a tooth that dispenses gas. (From Dune [1965] by Frank Herbert) |
| Paralysis Bomb A device like a hand grenade that released paralyzing radiation. (From If This Goes On... [1940] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Selective Television A special kind of 'television' that let the user choose any scene around the world. (From The Challenge of Atlantis [1938] by Arthur J. Burks) |
| Cephalic Pattern Door A door that only opens for specific people. (From The Zap Gun (Project Plowshare) [1965] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Shuttle Ship A spacecraft that could take off from a planet, rendezvous with an object in orbit, and fly back to the surface like a glider. (From Between Planets [1951] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Gogglelike Televisors A screen technology placed very close to the eyes. (From The Robot and the Lady [1938] by Manly Wade Wellman) |
| Teleoperated Robot Surrogate A robot that is entirely controlled remotely by a person who sees with the point of view of the robot. (From The Robot and the Lady [1938] by Manly Wade Wellman) |
| Pneumatic Bumpers An inflatable bumper system for ground-based motor vehicles. (From The Brain Pirates [1938] by John W. Campbell) |
| Atomic-Powered Lifting Suits Special exoskeletons that would allow an ordinary human being to walk in doubled gravity. (From The Brain Pirates [1938] by John W. Campbell) |
| Tiny Atomic-Power Drive Unit A very small power generator that is atomic powered. (From The Brain Pirates [1938] by John W. Campbell) |
| Cosmic Teletype A device that utilizes the fourth dimensional continuum to achieve communication at great distances. (From Cosmic Teletype [1938] by Carl Jacobi) |
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