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The Best-Laid Scheme by L. Sprague de Camp:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas
Excellent time-romp features a disheveled little man who discovers how to do backward-jumping in time. But won't that cause changes in our present? What happens if you send someone back to chase him? But I digress.
The ending is pure de Camp.
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an invention:
Paralyzing Eye False eye contains mechanism for causing brief paralysis.
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Vanwinkling Another name for time-traveling into the future.
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