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| Electric-Powered Caterpillar Shovels Mining equipment powered by electricity. (From The Fortress of Utopia [1939] by Jack Williamson) |
| Ideophore A device that quickly and (almost?) painlessly transfers knowledge from one brain to another. (From The Fortress of Utopia [1939] by Jack Williamson) |
| Spaceplane A craft able to land on Earth and take off directly for space. (From Zarnak [1937] by Max Plaisted) |
| Beer Robot A robot prepared and filled with draft beer. (From How-2 [1954] by Clifford Simak) |
| Lawyer Robot An autonomous, robotic lawyer. (From How-2 [1954] by Clifford Simak) |
| Automaton Judge An entirely artificial, mechanical judge for the courtroom. (From The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century [1828] by Jane Webb Loudon) |
| Automaton Birds Mechanical fowl sing sweetly. (From The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century [1828] by Jane Webb Loudon) |
| Automaton Lawyer's Clerk An autonomous clerk to lawyers. (From The Lawyer's Clerk Question Settled [1844] by Staff of Punch) |
| Electrofriend (Artificial Friend) A tiny electric friend, which nestles in your ear, and provides advice and information. (From Automatthew's Friend [1972] by Stanislaw Lem) |
| Bobble (Confinement Sphere) A sphere of force that entirely isolates the interior from the rest of the universe. (From The Peace War [1984] by Vernor Vinge) |
| Absolute Black A material which, when covering an object, will reflect no light whatsoever. (From The Shadow and the Flash [1903] by Jack London) |
| Boarding Space-Line A method for two ships to connect at a distance, allowing a passenger to move safely between ships. (From Tyrann [1951] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Computers Can Dream A sufficiently complex AI computer can have activity similar to that of a human dreaming. (From 2010: Odyssey Two [1982] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Computer Play Time Allowing a computer to take time off from serious problems improves its performance. (From Point of View [1975] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Wall in the Air An invisible barrier that protects an entire island or city. (From Rondah, or Thirty-Three Years in a Star [1887] by Florence Carpenter Dieudonné) |
| Science Fiction Literature that interweaves "the revealed truths of Science" with a "pleasing story" that is "poetical and true." (From A Little Earnest Book Upon a Great Old Subject [1851] by William Wilson) |
| Public Call A form of communication in which a group of people would remain isolated, but through technology could see and hear each other. (From The Machine Stops [1909] by E.M. Forster) |
| Deflector In this case a gravity deflector, but the first use of the word 'deflector'. (From Islands in the Air [1929] by L.H. Morrow) |
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