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| Mechanical Hand | ||
| A large robotic hand or claw, large enough to grasp a person. |
 (Buck Rogers: Small Mechanical Hand)
 (Buck Rogers: Giant Mechanical Hand Rescue) |
| Technovelgy from Buck Rogers, 2430 AD,
by Philip Nowlan (w/D. Calkins). Published by Not Known in 1929 Additional resources -
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Compare the giant claw hand rescue of Wilma to the similar rescue of Neo in The Matrix (1999), in which he is flushed into the water and grabbed by a giant robotic claw and then hauled back into the ship:
(The Matrix: Neo Rescue After the Flush)
Take a look at these true life articles about a giant mechanical hands Heinlein's Giant Waldo Comes To Life and Giant Robotic Hand Video.
Compare to the microhands from Microhands (Микроруки) (1931) by Boris Zhitkov, iron fingers from The Death's Head Meteor (1931) by Neil R. Jones, robot hands from The Iron World (1937) by Otis Adelbert Kline, waldoes from Waldo (1942) by Robert Heinlein, robot surgeon-hand from War Veteran (1955) by Philip K. Dick, robotic hand from The Door Into Summer (1956) by Robert Heinlein, interchangeable hands from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) by Philip K. Dick, surgical hand from Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964) by Philip K. Dick and office hand from The Human Blend (2010) by Alan Dean Foster.
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