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![]() See antigrav boots for the earliest use of that word, as far as I know.
Note that the idea of a force that acts in opposition to gravity can be found in the description of "apergy" found in Percy Greg's 1880 novel Across the Zodiac:
The use of antigravity is also seen in the spindizzy from James Blish's 1957 novel Cities in Flight. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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