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| Anti-Gravity Belt | ||
| A device which, when worn, reduces exposure to the effects of gravitation. |
| When he alighted, his foot caught in a projecting root, and he
sprawled gently forward. I say "gently" for he did not crash down as I
expected him to do. The only thing I could compare it with was a
slow-motion cinema, although I have never seen one in which horizontal
motions were registered at normal speed and only the vertical
movements were slowed down...
Apparently the mystery of these long leaps, the monkey-like ability to jump from bough to bough, and of the bodies that floated gently down instead of falling, lay in the belt. The thing was some sort of anti-gravity belt that almost balanced the weight of the wearer, thereby tremendously multiplying the propulsive power of the leg muscles, and the lifting power of the arms. |
| From Armageddon: 2419 A.D.,
by Philip Frances Nowlan. Published by Amazing Stories in 1928 Additional resources -
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Compare to the gravity web from Frank Herbert's Whipping Star.
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