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Aerocycle (Ærocycle)
An aerial bicycle, human powered.
(From Looking Forward: A Dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999 [1899] by Arthur Bird)
Temporal Paradox
The paradoxical idea that making changes in the past results in changes in the present.
(From The Toy [1954] by Brian Berry)
Aerodrome (Ærodromes)
Flying machines.
(From Looking Forward: A Dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999 [1899] by Arthur Bird)
Cosmo-Craft
A spacecraft for traveling through time and space.
(From A Race Through Time [1933] by Donald Wandrei)
Chemical Brain
A purely chemical artificial intelligence.
(From The Chemical Brain [1929] by Francis Flagg)
Polyfrequency Neutralizer
Dissolves projected solidographs (holograms).
(From Gather, Darkness! [1943] by Fritz Leiber)
Black Cube Teaching Machine
A device that offers recorded images, teaching the user.
(From The Flame From Mars [1934] by Jack Williamson)
Neutralizing Wall
A barrier that stops electrical and mechanical vibrations, rendering the protected area effectively invisible.
(From The Golden Girl of Munan [1928] by Harl Vincent)
Harvest Power From Stray Energy
A means of collecting enough energy from stray electronic impulses to power a device.
(From The Golden Girl of Munan [1928] by Harl Vincent)
Atomic Percolator
Make coffee with radiation.
(From The Golden Girl of Munan [1928] by Harl Vincent)
Atmospheric Pressure Control Plane
A vessel that flies by creating pockets of high and low pressure.
(From Around the World in 24 Hours [1929] by R.H. Romans)
Intergalactic
Going between galaxies.
(From Invaders From The Infinite [1932] by John W. Campbell)
Universal Sterilization Law
All young people were sterilized, and replacement people were generated artificially.
(From A Biological Experiment [1928] by David H. Keller)
Datasphere
The entirety of computers and their information linked together, typically on a planet, in concept.
(From Hyperion [1989] by Dan Simmons)
Cube Being
A living being comprised of linked cubes.
(From The Infinite Enemy [1938] by Jack Williamson)
Rotating Hollow Planetoid Habitat
An asteroid (or planetoid) hollowed out, spun for artificial gravity, used as a habitat.
(From Electronic Siege [1932] by John W. Campbell)
Lunar Tunnel (Human Pendulum)
A tunnel through the center of the moon, and the man who fell through it.
(From Captive of the Crater [1933] by D.D. Sharp)
San-Ray Projector
Device produces a habit-forming, nerve-tingling ray that clouds the mind.
(From Hell Ship of Space [1940] by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr.)
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