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Technovelgy
(Most Recent Additions - 3992 Total)
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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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