Full record for vacuum suit n.

Definition	a spacesuit
OED requirements	antedating 1930
Earliest cite	E. E. Smith, "Skylark Three"
Comment	Douglas Winston submitted a cite from an undated reprint of Henry Kuttner's 1949 "The Time Axis"; Fred Galvin verified this cite in its 1949 first publication. Michael Dolbear submitted a cite from a 1999 reprint of David Drake's 1998 "With the Lightnings". Douglas Winston submitted a 1998 cite from Kathy Tyers' "Fusion Fire". Malcolm Farmer submitted cites for "vacuum suit" and "vacuum-suit" from a 1999 reprint of Murray Leinster's 1955 "Scrimshaw". Mike Christie verified these in the 1955 magazine publication. Fred Galvin submitted a 1947 cite from Robert Abernathy's "Failure on Titan" Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a reprint of H.B. Fyfe's 1948 "Bureau of Slick Tricks", which Mike Christie verified in the original publication. Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a January 1947 reprint of "Venus Mines, Incorporated", by Nathan Schachner and Arthur Leo Zagat; we would like to verify the cite in its first publication (Wonder Stories, August, 1931) Fred Galvin submitted a 1930 cite from part II of the serialization of E.E. Smith's "Skylark Three"
Last modified	16 July, 2009

Citations for vacuum suit n.

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1930 Amazing Stories Sept. 543/2	They were wearing vacuum suits and were very short and stocky, giving theimpression of enormous strength.
1930 Amazing Stories Sept. 545/1	As Loring held the steel vessel close to the stranger, DuQuesne donned avacuum suit and stepped into the airlock.
1948 H. B. Fyfe Bureau of Slick Tricks in Astounding Sci. Fiction Dec. 76/2	‘But this gentleman in the rather crude vacuum suit wished to inquire about them.’ He turned to the metallic bulk, which exchanged a series of whistles with him. The alien turned and lumbered away.
1955 ‘M. Leinster’ Scrimshaw in Astounding Sci. Fiction Sept. 137	His vacuum suit went slack about him.
1990 B. Shaw Orbitsville Departure 103	Although it was the most over-publicised object in the globe, he paused before the heroic bronze which depicted a man clad in a vacuum suit of a design which had been in service two centuries earlier.