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"To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer."
- Robert Heinlein
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| Super-Telescopic Machines | ||
| A device able to project a picture of any scene at any distance! |
"Super", indeed.
| Most interesting to us, perhaps, were the great super-telescopic machines. These were able to penetrate throughout the universe and threw upon a screen a view on any planet at any degree of focus. Thus we were able to see a play in New York, Earth, as if we were not twenty feet from the actors. We viewed the pathetic desolation of Mars' ruined cities and the living monstrosities of the satellites of Jupiter. As we were gazing upon those last, Marcus Titillius switched back to the theatre. He adjusted the dials of another machine, and we were listening to the voices of the players! Not only sight, but sound! It was this, then, that Laelia had referred to when she spoke of the opening night she was to attend. Here were all the varied scenes of life on Earth at one's instant command. A war or a play, America or China, at the turn of a dial. |
| Technovelgy from The Heritage of the Earth,
by Harley S. Aldinger. Published by Amazing Stories in 1932 Additional resources -
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Compare to telephotography from The Cosmic Cloud (1931) by Bruno H. Burgel.
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