Full record for gravity screen n.
| OED requirements | antedating 1930 |
| Earliest cite | S.P. Meek in Amazing Stories |
| Comment | Fred Galvin submitted a 1947 cite from Henry Kuttner in Thrilling Wonder Stories. Fred Galvin submitted a 1932 cite from Arthur G. Stangland's "50th Century Revolt". Fred Galvin submitted a 1952 cite from James Blish's "Bridge". Fred Galvin submitted a 1940 cite from Vincent Reid's "The Future's Fair". Fred Galvin submitted a 1930 cite from a letter from S. P. Meek in Amazing Stories; this letter alludes to a story of Meek's ("The Red Peril") published in the Sept. 1929 issue. We would like to obtain a cite from this story. Fred Galvin submitted a cite from an undated reprint of Harry Walton's "Schedule"; Mike Christie verified the cite in the 1945 first appearance. Fred Galvin submitted cites from a 1960s reprint of Edmond Hamilton's "Crashing Suns": we would like to verify this in its first publication (Weird Tales, August and September 1928) [Fred Galvin notes the use of a similar term, "gravitation screen" in a story, "On The Martian Way" by Captain Harry Gore Bishop, first published in 1907 and reprinted several times in the following decades] |
| Last modified | 8 June, 2010 |
Citations for gravity screen n.
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| 1945 Astounding Sci.-Fiction June 58/2 | ‘The turbos are heatin'. They won't take any overload on deceleratin'.’ ‘Won't have to. We'll cut in the gravity screens in reverse.’ |
| 1947 Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb. 113/1 | Gravity-screens, to take only one example, make it possible to use android robots of such size that they could exist only in a slight gravity. |
| 1952 Astounding Sci. Fiction Feb. 70/2 | ‘They have antigravity! Isn't that it?’ ‘Yes‥. Of course, it couldn't be a complete gravity screen by any means. But it seems to be a good long step toward it.’ |