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Flying Police Car
A dirigible paddy wagon for spotting and capturing criminals.
(From La police en l’an 2000 (Police in the Year 2000) [1910] by Léon Gaumont)
Police Hooks
Police in dirigibles use hooks to capture criminals.
(From La police en l’an 2000 (Police in the Year 2000) [1910] by Léon Gaumont)
Nerve Wire
In which silver wire could be attached to living nerves, making possible direct stimulation.
(From The City of the Living Dead [1930] by Laurence Manning (w/F. Pratt))
Adventure Machines
Presenting a false life to the optic nerve, and later the other instruments of the senses.
(From The City of the Living Dead [1930] by Laurence Manning (w/F. Pratt))
Marvel-Metal Eyes
Mechanical eyes with photo-sensitive cells.
(From The City of the Living Dead [1930] by Laurence Manning (w/F. Pratt))
Lunar Colony
A permanent base on the moon.
(From The Lunar Trilogy: On the Silver Globe [1903] by Jerzy Żuławski)
Sapient Being Rights
Discovery of sapient races puts planets off limits for development.
(From Little Fuzzy [1962] by H. Beam Piper)
Matter Machines
Devices that can turn one form of matter into any other complex form.
(From The Man Who Awoke - The Elixir [1933] by Laurence Manning)
Dream Palace (Sleep Palace)
A vast building full of wired-in sleepers!
(From The Man Who Awoke - The City of Sleep [1933] by Laurence Manning)
Food of the Gods
Delicious food manufactured from sand and gravel.
(From The Man Who Awoke - The City of Sleep [1933] by Laurence Manning)
Master Records
The substance of dreams.
(From The Man Who Awoke - The City of Sleep [1933] by Laurence Manning)
Electrical Rain Machine
A device that can procure rain from passing clouds.
(From The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century [1828] by Jane Webb Loudon)
Glass Coffin
A special pod for re-entering the earth's atmosphere, and dropping an individual to the Earth safely.
(From The Space Coffin [1932] by A. Rowley Hilliard)
Cosmograph
A "radio" using light rays, for space communication.
(From Tyrant of the Red World [1932] by Richard Tooker)
Sun-Shutters
Blocking the light in a spacecraft.
(From Tyrant of the Red World [1932] by Richard Tooker)
Stalker's Fever
A spaceman's malady, in which madness results in a crew member hunting down and murdering a colleague.
(From The Rakehills of Heaven [1971] by John Boyd)
Sun Shutters
A mechanical means of limiting the amount of sunshine coming into a spacecraft.
(From SOS in Space [1937] by Eando Binder)
Space Fear
Space travel can be terrifying.
(From SOS in Space [1937] by Eando Binder)
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