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Television 'Phone
A video call.
(From The Sword and the Atopen [1930] by Taylor H. Greenfield)
Artificial Sun
Use of a single large artifact to provide sunlight to a city or a world.
(From The Bride of Osirus [1927] by Otis Adelbert Kline)
Reflected Artificial Sun
Sending light to another planet via mirror.
(From Revolt on Inferno [1931] by Victor Rousseau)
Air-Dock
A docking mechanism that seems to catch a descending space-ship in mid-air.
(From Revolt on Inferno [1931] by Victor Rousseau)
Ten Million Mile Searchlight
You need to see where you're going.
(From Revolt on Inferno [1931] by Victor Rousseau)
Multigyros
Allows known stable movement in four dimensions, thus making space travel possible.
(From Revolt on Inferno [1931] by Victor Rousseau)
Jetta Tube
Spray causes immediately a trance-like state where a person’s body becomes rigid.
(From Revolt on Inferno [1931] by Victor Rousseau)
Up-and-Down Orientation
Designed and constructed as if gravity were a factor.
(From Waldo [1942] by Robert Heinlein)
Prison Planet (Penal Settlement)
A prison so far from Earth.
(From Revolt on Inferno [1931] by Victor Rousseau)
Chronanalyzer
Isolate specific movements for analysis.
(From Waldo [1942] by Robert Heinlein)
Maintenance Drone (Holon)
A semi-autonomous flying device used to perform repairs.
(From The Mountain in the Sea [2022] by Ray Naylor)
AI Control Portal
A special window into an artificial intelligence, to allow an operator to take control of it if necessary.
(From The Mountain in the Sea [2022] by Ray Naylor)
Tin Foil Hat (Tin Pulpit)
A metal device that protects the user from unwanted telepathic intrusions.
(From The Tissue-Culture King [1927] by Julian Huxley)
Autotrawler Autonomous Fishing Factory Ship
An entirely autonomous vessel with imprisoned labor that scrapes the sea for protein and off-loads it to other ships.
(From The Mountain in the Sea [2022] by Ray Naylor)
Sentenced Man
A person who commits asocial actions and lives in society, but in reduced circumstances.
(From Robot Justice [1959] by Harry Harrison)
Space Traffic
The movement of numbers of ships through space.
(From Satan in Exile [1935] by Arthur William Bernal)
Juiciveal
Artificially grown veal.
(From Lazarus [1955] by Margaret St. Clair)
Synthimeat (Crop Protein)
A more general name for synthetic meat
(From Lazarus [1955] by Margaret St. Clair)
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