Full record for vision plate n.

Definition	= a viewscreen
OED requirements	antedating 1935
Earliest cite	Alexander M. Phillips, 'Martian Gesture'
Comment	Fred Galvin submitted a 1948 cite from Murray Leinster's "Planet of Sand". Fred Galvin submitted a 1952 reprint of Lawrence O'Donnell's (aka Kuttner/Moore) 1943 "Clash by Night". Fred Galvin submitted a 1935 cite from Alexander M. Phillips' "Martian Gesture". Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1950 reprint of Clifford D. Simak's 1939 "Cosmic Engineers". Fred Galvin submitted a 1946 cite from Ross Rocklynne's "Distress Signal". Fred Galvin submitted a 1956 cite from Richard E. Lowe's "The Ninety-Minute War".
Last modified	6 July, 2008

Citations for vision plate n.

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1943 ‘L. O'Donnell’ Clash By Night in Astounding Sci.-Fiction Mar. 28/1	Scott, craning his neck at a painfully awkward angle and trying to see through the mud-smeared vision plates, kept a rattrap grip on his end of the pole, hoping its slickness would not slip through his fingers.
1948 A. E. van Vogt Rull in Astounding Sci. Fiction May 10/2	It was shortly after midnight—Laertes III had a twenty-six hour, sidereal time, day—when Jamieson saw a movement at the perimeter of his all-wave vision plate. Finger on blaster control, he waited for the object to come into sharper focus.
1956 R. E. Lowe Ninety-Minute War in Fantastic Universe Apr. 107/2	The smoke boiled and roiled and plummeted above the planet of Likk, and shock waves made blurs across the vision plate.