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1726
Bio-Energy
The first reference to extracting electricity from organic materials.
1846
Express Dolphin
A most agreeable means of locomotion under the waves.
1846
Feeding Room
An automated child care.
1867
Gourmet Space Cuisine
The finest in French cuisine, in outer space.
1871
Fossil Shell Coin
The use of rare natural shells of an extinct species, for money.
1875
Diving Apparatus
Equipment used to go for walks on the sea bed; the direct ancestor of modern scuba diving equipment.
1879
Compact Food Pastilles
One small tablet is a month's worth of food.
1879
Suspended Animation (Frigorific Process)
Very early reference to cryogenic storage.
1881
Chemical Production of Food
Creation of food in the laboratory rather than in the field.
1894
Aeriduct (Rain Maker)
A specific means of producing rain.
1897
Glow-Worm Living
Alternated work, play and slumber without long periods of sleep.
1897
Life-Brew
A non-alcoholic beverage, but similar to wine.
1897
Artificial Silk
A fabric like silk produced entirely without silkworms.
1897
Vivification
A process by which the body can be preserved for centuries at body temperature and then revived.
1898
Red Weed (Terraforming Plant)
A plant brought by the Martians that grew on Earth.
1899
Nutritious Pellets
Food in pill form.
1899
Electrical Farming Implements
Labor-saving automatic farm equipment.
1901
Breathing Dresses
A special suit and apparatus for survival on the surface of the Moon.
1908
Minus-Matter
Material that negates weight.
1909
Telemedicine Apparatus
First reference to a device that allows physicians to examine or aid patients at a distance.
1909
Breed Humans For Machines
Carefully cull the strong, resilient humans in favor of weakness, that the human race might be more adapted to life in the Machine.
1911
Artificial Cloth
The creation of fabrics without organic natural fibers.
1911
Helio-Dynamophores (Sun-Power-Generators)
Photo-electric elements which transformed the solar heat direct into electric energy.
1913
Poison Space Cloud (Etheric Poison)
A deadly cloud of gas large enough to envelop the solar system.
1914
Artificial Food
Food produced without soil, chemically.
1915
Food Tablet
All of your nutrients in one easy-to-swallow form factor.
1920
Spinning Mill for Veins (Artificial Organs)
The manufacture of artificial organs, digestive tract, veins - body parts.
1923
Acoustic Apparatus (Osophone)
A device that used bone conduction to transmit sound.
1926
Artificial Life
Creating living beings from inorganic elements.
1927
Cold Ray
A device that pulled warmth from anything it was aimed at.
1928
Universal Sterilization Law
All young people were sterilized, and replacement people were generated artificially.
1928
Synthetic Babies
A means of gestating eggs to term is found.
1928
Electric Diaper
A diaper that will indicate when it is wet.
1928
Atomic Percolator
Make coffee with radiation.
1928
Concentro
Concentrated synthetic food rations.
1929
Electro-Culturer
A device used to artificially stimulate cell growth and development.
1929
Diagnostic Type Sense Transmitter
Allows the doctor to directly feel the same sensations that the patient feels.
1929
Human Blood Chlorophyll
Replacement of elements of human blood with chlorophyll.
1929
Life Chamber
A machine-mediated, fully immersive experiential environment.
1930
Brain Rejuvenation
Erase unnecessary parts of memory to make room for new impressions.
1929
Anti-Fatigue Pill
A pill that counteracts the effects of fatigue and lack of sleep.
1929
Electric Kitchen
Food preparation in space requires safe equipment.
1930
Automatic Cultivators
Agricultural robots.
1930
Spectrumoscope
Provides sight directly to the brain-cells of the sightless.
1930
Planets Made Habitable
A plan to "terraform" a planet to improve its habitability by human beings.
1930
Artificial Eyes
Eyes that are the duplicate of what humans are born with, produced entirely artificially from elements.
1930
Magnalloy
A durable form of magnesium.
1930
Synthetic Life
Living animals made from scratch using inorganic elements.
1930
Robot Doctor
A mechanical physician.
1931
Vita-Light
A special form of bulb or light source that could keep people who were never exposed to the sun perfectly healthy.
1931
Mutation
An organism that has come into being through genetic mutation.
1931
Food Factory
Mechanized production of food by entirely artificial means.
1931
Vitalium
A rare radioactive metal which enables solar power cells.
1931
Synthetic Food Factories
Food production without soil.
1931
Kundrenaline
Revives even a dead man's heart.
1931
Atmosphere Tester
A device used to test the composition of a sample of the atmosphere on another planet, to see if it is breathable by humans.
1931
Neutronic Dust
What's left over when you've annihilated matter.
1931
Artificial Atmosphere Machine
Not just oxygen, this gives you what you need in space.
1931
Evolution Machine
A device that accelerates the process of evolution by millions of times.
1931
Terrene
Pertaining to the Earth.
1931
Solar Power Apparatus
An ingenious device to gather solar energy, melt water, power a turbine and get hydrogen and oxygen fuel from ice.
1931
Ozone Radiation Shield
Filling the gap between the inner and outer hull with ozone.
1932
Bone-Building Compounds
Combat heavy gravity on other planets by building greater bone density in workers and colonists.
1932
Spaceship Garden
A fully-enclosed garden on a spaceship producing edible foodstuffs.
1932
Torpoon
Clever portmanteau of "torpedo" and "harpoon", an underwater whaling craft.
1932
Laboratory Planet
A toy planet created in a laboratory; a fully functional world in miniature.
1932
Violet Shrink Ray
A miniaturization ray.
1932
Surta
A base material for synthetic food.
1932
Weather Machine
A device for controlling the weather.
1932
Smoke Jets (Air Leak Detection)
A means of determining the location of air leaks in a building built on an airless moon.
1932
Artificial Womb
A room in which a human embryo waits for the necessary months as a fetus, preparing for birth (decanting).
1932
Alpha Plus
Intervening in the physical development of humans can result in enhancements.
1932
Bokanovsky's Process
A very early description of cloning.
1933
Anadrenalin
Has the opposite effect of adrenalin.
1933
Synthetic Food
Edible food for humans, grown in the laboratory.
1933
Food Preparation Machine
An automated device for the production of complete meals.
1933
Conscious Retarded Animation
A kind of hibernation, but leaves the user fully conscious, but aging at an incredibly slow rate.
1933
Drink the Fungi
A method of suicide or criminal punishment involving ingestion of spores.
1933
Corporol
Preserves and maintains the body.
1934
Impermite
A substance that is impervious to penetration.
1934
Ingestible Communication Capsule
A tiny transmitter that can be swallowed, which makes possible voice communication.
1934
Mutant
A new organism resulting from an alteration in the DNA sequence of its genome or chromosome.
1934
Healing Crystal
A small object that burns off diseased tissue, leaving healthy tissue unharmed.
1934
Hypomatrin
A spinal anesthetic that allows the reformation of personality.
1934
Wine Pellets
Fine wine in convenient, dried form.
1934
Homorium
A kind of nursery that could bring a human being to maturity in a single year.
1934
Synthetic Food Dispenser
A machine that could make whatever food you wanted from basic elements.
1934
Robot-Surgeon
A perfect robot for perfected human beings.
1935
Bloodhound Machine
Could positively identify a person using their scent alone.
1935
Living Space Ship
A space ship made of a living substance, in this case cellulose.
1935
Conscious Farm Machines
Farm machinery that worked on their own.
1935
Doughpot
A mass of white, dough-like protoplasm, ranging in size from a single cell to perhaps twenty tons of mushy filth.
1935
Mudshoes
Footgear specialized for the semisolid soil of Venus
1935
Thermide
A chemical which, added to water, boiled and sterilized it instantly.
1935
Xixtline
Venusian drug provides a rejuvenate effect.
1935
Fruit-Picking Machine
An humanoid machine for automatic fruit picking.
1935
Thermlectrium
An alloy that turns heat directly into electricity.
1936
Foam Station Sprayer
A device that stills the stormy Great Red Spot on Jupiter.
1936
Nutrient Gelatin Tank
Essential hardware for creating a new, improved humanity - isotope men!
1936
Indoor Weighted Belt
Device to stay grounded in low gravity on the Moon.
1936
Automated Search For Habitable Planets
Automated use of telescopes and other devices to search the universe for Earth-like planets.
1936
Dark Vapor Bubble
A kind of field that keeps an alien base provided with an atmosphere.
1936
Jupiter Mining Shoes
Specialized footgear for walking on the Great Red Spot.
1936
Shoggoths
Bioengineered creatures, able to change shape, created for labor.
1937
Artificial eye
A surgically-implanted artificial eyeball.
1937
Designed Bacteria
Very early reference to the idea of bacteria designed to wipe out a particular species, and no others.
1937
Antron
A single particle of antimatter - an antiproton.
1937
Ultra-microrobot
A nanomachine; a machine whose parts are no bigger than atoms.
1937
Poldek
Ability to sense life.
1937
Gold-Fish-Bowl World
An artificial water planet.
1938
Robot Cook
A household robot that can cook meals.
1938
Transfer Refuge
A portable environment chamber, able to support unique and different lifeforms.
1938
Preserved Brains
Preserving a brain, and then communicating with it.
1938
Brain-Case
A device designed to transport a living human (or alien, if similar) brain.
1938
Air-Blanket
A dome-less protective air shield.
1939
Floating Spherical Pool
Control of gravity permits mid-air pools of water.
1939
Hall of Euthanasia
A place for (mostly) voluntary suicide.
1939
Microsurgery Tool
Miniaturized device for surgical precision.
1939
Robot Surgery
Robots operate an advance operating theater.
1939
Synthetic Spider Silk
Artificial fabric thread as strong as steel.
1939
Synthite Food
Compact food for space travelers.
1939
Thermalite
A transparent material that allows almost no heat to escape.
1939
Portable Atomic Heater
Compact source of energy.
1940
Atom-Shifter
A device that 'softens' matter, making it possible for a person to pass through.
1940
Solar Power Screen
Absorb all solar energy, and emit electrical energy.
1940
Methuen Treatment
Injections that increase intelligence.
1940
Synthetic Flesh
Material resembles human flesh, handy for disguises.
1940
Tectogenetic
Deliberate manipulation of genes to produce unique species.
1940
Merry-Go-Round Life Suspension (Refrigerator Plant)
A device that offered cold sleep.
1940
Sunpower Screen
A solar cell array used to provide power for a vehicle.
1940
Asbestos Sunshade
A means of shielding oneself from the sun's rays.
1940
Hydroponics
Growing food without soil, typically from water saturated with nutrients.
1941
Uranatomic
An atomic pile that generates electricity.
1941
Oxygen Freshener
A device that removed carbon dioxide from air and replaced it with fresh oxygen.
1941
Mind Control Genetically Modified Food
Plants that are modified to produce specific combinations of flavors.
1941
Moon-Terror
A syndrome common to people who live in less than half Earth-normal gravity.
1941
Sleep Surrogate
Pharmaceutical designed to make up for lost sleep.
1941
Howard Families
A project designed to produce a group of people with exceptionally long life.
1941
Cold-Rest
Lowering body temperature and metabolic levels, as in hibernation; also called reduced temperature somnolence.
1941
Cold-Sleep
A state of hibernation, created by lowered temperature and metabolism.
1941
Young Blood - New Blood For Old
Replacing the blood plasma of older people with material from younger people.
1941
Dewlog
A drug with the side-effect of virtually eliminating hunger.
1941
Electrono-Mirror
Focuses the sun's rays on a planetary surface for terraforming purposes.
1942
Martian Sawgrass
Specialized variety of plant that is used to provide oxygen for space stations.
1942
Control Natural
A person who is allowed to have an unmodified genetic makeup.
1942
Terraforming
The process of modifying a planetary surface to resemble those of an ideal earth; affects the entire biosphere.
1942
Radiation Garment
Clothing worn by ordinary citizens to reduce the risk of radiation exposure.
1942
Gravanol
A medicine or supplement that helps astronauts deal better with high accelerations.
1942
Sobriety Ray
A ray of a particular wavelength and intensity, that conferred instant sobriety on those it shone upon.
1943
Robot Chef
Creative, autonomous robotic cook.
1943
Zeroentropy Spray
A method of reducing the disorder of an object as much as possible, reducing the temperature close to absolute zero.
1943
Robot Taste Buds
A sensor for robots that would allow it to taste foods like a human being.
1943
Gum Tree
A huge tree that lashed out with a mind of its own.
1944
Mal de Void
Literally, space sick.
1944
Life Blanket
Sentient moss which, when draped over the shoulders of a human being, becomes fully self-aware, providing valuable services.
1944
Eternity Drug
A medication that puts a person into a deep hibernation-like sleep for decades at a time.
1944
Automatic Massager
An autonomous massage machine with robotic arms and hands.
1947
Vitalizer
Tired? Try Henderson's Vitalizer!
1947
Mechanical Funeral
An entirely autonomous burial rite.
1948
Tag-Along Balloon
A bladder-like device that both finds and temporarily fixes leaks in moon tunnels or space station habitats.
1948
High-Frequency Oven
This describes the essence of a microwave.
1948
Precog (v)
To see the future.
1948
Microwavable Food
Food that is prepared specifically for use in a microwave (high-frequency) oven.
1949
Gee
Using the standard letter designation in physics for gravity.
1949
Desert Cabbage
A giant plant that regulates its internal temperature even on Mars.
1949
Painted Respirator Masks
Children choose to decorate otherwise uniform equipment masks.
1949
Space Scurvy (Kenoalgia)
A wasting disease of space travel.
1949
Resilian
A natural fiber that is as strong as steel.
1949
Emergency Treatment Tank (Chamber)
A fully enclosed regeneration device.
1949
Vivo-Gel
Semi-living material.
1949
Plastiskin
Artificial human skin to cover prosthetics.
1950
Anti-Tri-D Shot
Counteracts the deadly pesticide Tri-D.
1950
Nucleocat Cureall
Only human cells can survive contact.
1950
Shipboard Medical Treatment
An elaborate system to guard against infection in returning space explorers.
1950
Culture Tank
Germs that eat garbage and produce oil.
1950
Syntho-Steak
Artificially produced meat.
1950
Yeast Steak
Growing custom strains of yeast as food.
1950
Quickthaw
A microwave oven to heat food items quickly.
1950
Underpeople
An animal modified to be human in shape and intellect.
1950
Regeneration Tank
A nutrient bath large enough to enclose a person that preserved life and treated disease.
1951
Coffee Cube
Concentrated coffee that boils itself!
1951
Flavor-Fix Rheostat
Technology makes sure that the flavor of automatically-produced food is perfect.
1951
Sun Dome
Used on Venus to give relief from the endless rain.
1951
Oxygen Weeds
Plants that create oxygen on a planet with little breathable air.
1951
Oxygen Concentrator
Gathers oxygen from a thin atmosphere until it is breathable, supporting life.
1951
Smarter People Having Fewer Children
The original argument that less suitable human pairs are having proportionally more children.
1951
Dirt-Farming
An archaic method of food production.
1951
Vat Meat (Albert)
Meat grown in a vat.
1951
Pail of Air
A small bucket filled with (liquid) air.
1951
Genetic Engineering
Direct manipulation of genetic material
1951
Asteroid Garden
A method for building a greenhouse on a small, airless body.
1951
Self-Sealing Plastic
Transparent sheeting with a layer of material that would flow to staunch tiny leaks.
1951
Plasto-Textile
A fabric that cannot be stained.
1951
Suspensine
Slows biological functions enough to survive in airless space - for a time.
1951
Vibratory Mass Penetrator
A device that allows a person to walk through earth and even solid rock.
1951
Surrogate Skin
False skin that is sprayed onto damaged areas.
1951
Ontogenetic Adaptation
Immediate genetic-level ability to eat alien plants.
1951
Agricultural World
Planet set aside for the production of food for another world.
1951
Cold-Sleep
A form of induced suspended animation, in which a person enters a state like hibernation.
1951
Odorophonics
A system capable of reproducing selected scents capable of fooling the human nervous system.
1952
Plastissue
Artificial flesh.
1952
Chlorella Plantation
A skyscraper designed for food production.
1952
Animal-tissue Culture Vat
A means of producing artificial meat for food.
1952
Hilsch Vortex Tube
A T-shaped device that admits air under pressure and outputs hot air from side and cold from the other.
1952
Chicken Little
Very early reference to meat grown in a vat for food.
1952
Flat Cat
A nearly two-dimensional furry little beast.
1952
Panatrope
A device that modifies human dna to ensure survival in harsh alien environments.
1952
Coffiest
It's coffee that you can't live without.
1952
Personal Solar Plant
A single-home solar-powered energy source.
1952
Flavor-Capsule
A small pill used to turn ordinary water into a flavored beverage.
1952
Soot-Extractor Nostril Plugs (Antisoot Plugs)
A small device worn to filter industrial pollutants out of breathing air.
1952
Depilatory Soap
A labor-saving combination of soap and a agent that removes hair.
1952
Analogue Treatment
Hypnotic drug treatment that normalizes behavior in humans.
1952
Medical Use for Weightlessness
Early reference to the idea of using a weightless environment for medical purposes.
1952
Lead-Bodied Android
A robot designed for use in the nuclear industry.
1952
Flesh Men
Thinking beings that are not mechanical robots - human beings.
1953
Preserving Machine
A device that would create a unique animal from a piece of classical music.
1953
Farming Trantor
Taking apart a vast city, and returning to farming the land.
1953
Electronic-Eyed Snake
A fully automated stomach pump.
1953
Short-Wave Surgical Knife
A means of performing an internal cut without breaking the skin.
1953
Yeast-Culture Vats
Using cultured yeast as the basis for food production.
1954
Protoplast
Artificial life, tougher than protoplasm.
1954
Nanomachine Swarm (Black Cloud)
A cloud of tiny machines, able to work together autonomously.
1954
Hypno-Motor Control
A means of controlling the body remotely, cutting off the need for local control (ie, by your mind).
1954
Prethink
The ability to predict the future in a routine perceptual manner.
1954
Gravity neutralizing paint
Paint or coating that neutralized the effects of gravity on whatever it was painted on.
1954
House Trees
Living trees grown as houses; large hollow pods serve as living spaces.
1954
Anti-Gerasone
Cheap immortality comes to your neighborhood convenience store.
1954
Radiant
A chip that is injected into the shoulder, providing positioning and information about the subject.
1954
Boat-Tree
A tree, the pods of which can be grown as boats.
1954
Robot Farmer
A humanoid robot used for agriculture.
1954
Mother-Scanner
A device that can see your future through your next birth.
1954
Airmakers
Machine to create breathable air from the constituent materials on an alien planet.
1955
Robot Gardener
An autonomous gardening robot, taking care of plants in parks or fields.
1955
Heat-Suit
Perfect for those incredibly hot planets with breathable atmospheres.
1955
Synthetic Milk
Milk made without cows.
1955
Raw Material-Tropic
Moves towards desirable raw materials.
1955
Robot Surgeon-Hand
A skilled surgical robot that attaches at the end of the surgeon's arm.
1955
Artigraft
Artificial skin graft.
1955
Protine
A mutant algae that can be engineered to look and taste similar to normal food.
1956
Anti-Heptant
A compound that erases specific areas of the brain.
1956
Mechanotherapy
A mechanism or device-based therapy that cures (or palliates) alcoholism.
1956
Home Therapy Appliances, Inc.
A store at which a variety of therapy devices are made available
1956
Rex Regenerator (Mechanotherapist)
Mechanotherapy device cures homicidal urges.
1956
Alcoholic Reliever
Mechanized relief from alcoholism.
1956
Intelligent Trash Sorting
Robots sort the garbage - almost completely.
1956
Underwater Robot
An autonomous mechanical for use underwater.
1956
Analogue
A combination of a drug and a particular mental state allow a person to devolve to an animal level of their choice.
1956
Mutated Kodiak Bears
Animals modified for increased intelligence for defense and companionship.
1956
Stasis (Cold Sleep, Hibernation)
Hibernation for human beings, lasting for many years.
1956
Robot Fish (Metal Fish)
Fake flounders for sport fishermen on Martian canals.
1956
Internal Body Power Pack
A tiny battery used to power implants.
1956
Cider Press
Device used to make acceleration above 1 gravity more tolerable for groundhogs.
1956
Regen-Buds
Small collection of cells that can regrow into human limbs.
1956
Bendix Anxiety Reducer
Machine-based psychotherapy.
1956
Dental Switchboard
A control device tied in with teeth and nerve endings.
1956
Eagle With Camera
A live bald eagle equipped with a transmitting camera.
1956
Floating Lunar Dust
Electrostatically charged particles that float above the surface of the Moon.
1956
Refurbished Nervous System
Your nerves are rewired for 5-10 times the speed of a normal person.
1957
Molecular Sieve
A device that can extract any element from seawater.
1957
Prosthetic Robotic Arm (Thought-Attuned)
A detachable robotic arm, controlled directly through neural linkage.
1957
Phymech
A robotic physician.
1957
Anti-agathic drugs
Drugs that indefinitely postpone death from old age.
1957
Teleoperated Lab Robot
A robot is used to conduct experiments in an environment too extreme for humans.
1957
Crop Algae
Growing algae in tanks as a source of basic food stock.
1957
Oxygen Pill
Meets your need for oxygen without additional breathing.
1957
Death-Rattle
A device that sends a signal upon brain death of the user.
1958
Plastotek
False skin disguise.
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