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| Gravitic Generator | ||
| A device that produces an artificial gravity field. |
| “However, if this local generation of a gravitic field can be used to nullify mass, we can make a spaceship that need not increase in mass as its velocity increases.
“Providing that my reasoning is any good. This is just conjecture and guess. I don’t know yet how much this gravitic generator will cover." |
| From Meddler's Moon,
by George O. Smith. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1947 Additional resources -
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