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"I'm strictly an ivory-tower person. I can explain things but I can't do things."
- Isaac Asimov
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| Tiny Atomic-Power Drive Unit | ||
| A very small power generator that is atomic powered. |
In the future, those tiny atomic-power units will be everywhere... Well, maybe not. But in this story, you can at least read about them.
The atomic-power drive units were used to provide power for a special kind of space suit used on planets with gravity greater than that of the earth.
| Presently he was deeply engrossed in the delicate task of readjusting the tiny atomic-power drive units he had fixed in the space suits...
Slowly he turned up the lift-control at his belt. A slow creaking of straps and an unhappy wriggling on [his] part attested to the increasing power of the atomic drive mounted on his suit... "I can't even stand up without the aid of this thing. Let's go." |
| Technovelgy from The Brain Pirates,
by John W. Campbell. Published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1938 Additional resources -
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In the early 1960's, I read books like "Our Friend the Atom" that insisted that atomic power would be used in cars and small planes.
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