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Black Cube Teaching Machine
A device that offers recorded images, teaching the user.
(From The Flame From Mars [1934] by Jack Williamson)
Atomic Percolator
Make coffee with radiation.
(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)
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)
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)
Datasphere
The entirety of computers and their information linked together, typically on a planet, in concept.
(From Hyperion [1989] by Dan Simmons)
Universal Sterilization Law
All young people were sterilized, and replacement people were generated artificially.
(From A Biological Experiment [1928] by David H. Keller)
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)
Intergalactic
Going between galaxies.
(From Invaders From The Infinite [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.)
Suitcase Airplane
A diminutive, collapsible, two-passenger biplane.
(From Suitcase Airplanes [1929] by E.D. Skinner)
Matter Transmitter and Receiver
A device that transports matter through space.
(From Monsters of Mars [1931] by Edmond Hamilton)
Protolectric Gun
Fires twin beams of protons and electrons.
(From Electronic Siege [1932] by John W. Campbell)
Steam Man
A mechanical robot powered by steam.
(From The Steam Man of the Prairies [1868] by Edward S. Ellis)
Electric Bicycle
A two-wheeled device utilizing stored electricity as motive power.
(From In the Deep of Time [1897] by George Parsons Lathrop)
Helium Metal
An ore with the spectroscopic line of Helium.
(From In the Deep of Time [1897] by George Parsons Lathrop)
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