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| Air Tunnel A means of sending trains through the air. (From Through the Air Tunnel [1929] by Harl Vincent) |
| Beeper A handheld radar set, used to find items that have drifted off. (From Islands in the Sky [1952] by Arthur C. Clarke) |
| Cylinder Space Suit A mostly rigid, cylindrical space suit. (From Islands in the Sky [1952] by Arthur C. Clarke) |
| Tannin-Secretion Pills Artificially darkens skin, for skin protection. (From Crashlander [1994] by Larry Niven) |
| Robobug A cyborg insect. (From The Golden City [2009] by John Twelve Hawks) |
| Crowdcutter A device worn to part crowds. (From Infomocracy [2016] by Malka Older) |
| New Blood For Old Replacing the blood plasma of older people with material from younger people. (From Methuselah's Children [1941] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Flip to Brake Maneuver to put the tail end (with rocket output) in the forward direction of travel to use for lowering velocity. (From Methuselah's Children [1941] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Interplanetary Clearance Bureaucratic red tape associated with busy space ports. (From Methuselah's Children [1941] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Protective Field (Safety Field) An static energy field used to protect a city. (From The Man in the Maze [1969] by Robert Silverberg) |
| Panoramic Viewer Permits observation at a distance, as well as the projection of a holographic image. (From Childhood's End [1953] by Arthur C. Clarke) |
| Flying Robot Drone Probe A remote-controlled flying drone used for remote investigation and surveillance. (From The Man in the Maze [1969] by Robert Silverberg) |
| Zero 'g' In a ship in orbit, in free fall. (From Islands in the Sky [1952] by Arthur C. Clarke) |
| Leady A radiation-resistant robot. (From The Defenders [1953] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Zero-Gravity A state in which gravity is effectively absent or cancelled out. (From If Science Reached the Earth's Core [1938] by John R. Binder) |
| Robot Strike When robots refuse to work. (From Robots of the World! Arise! [1952] by Mari Wolf) |
| Flesh Men Thinking beings that are not mechanical robots - human beings. (From Robots of the World! Arise! [1952] by Mari Wolf) |
| Lead-Bodied Android A robot designed for use in the nuclear industry. (From Robots of the World! Arise! [1952] by Mari Wolf) |
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