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    Time Dredge by  Robert Arthur: 
      Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas
    "The German professor had a nice idea for making archaeology a branch of Blitzkrieg technique - with the aid of a little tinkering with Time. His gadget fished up some strange specimens. One he never saw himself, though -"
  
  
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         Time Dredge  A device that scoops up material from the past, and returns it to the present.
           
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