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"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."
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This is a very early use of this term, but it would soon be (in 1929) a commercial device.
Here's another use, from Exiles of the Moon, a 1931 Schachner and Zagat story:
It's also referred to as a "visor screen":
Compare to the gogglelike televisors from The Robot and the Lady (1938) by Manly Wade Wellman, the selective television from The Challenge of Atlantis (1938) by Arthur J. Burks and the telescreen from 1984 (1948) by George Orwell.
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