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"In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since."
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In a letter to Astounding magazine, editor John W. Campbell stated the acknowledgement of Captain Cal Lanning that Doc Smith's ideas were used extensively in the design of US Navy warship's Combat Information Centers.
Probably the source for Heinlein's stereo tank in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land.
See also automatic navigator in A Matter of Size (1934) by Harry Bates, the
chart cabinet in One Against the Legion (1939) by Jack Williamson, the
pilot-robot in Collision Orbit (1941) also by Williamson, the article on astrogation in Methuselah's Children (1941) by Robert Heinlein and the
telechart in Crashing Suns (1928) by Edmond Hamilton.
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