Full record for visiplate n.

Definition	a screen capable of displaying a visual image
OED requirements	antedating 1930
Earliest cite	E.E. 'Doc' Smith, 'Skylark Three'
Comment	Jesse Sheidlower submitted a cite from a 1975 printing of Heinlein's "Farmer in the Sky". Enoch Forrester submitted cites from Isaac Asimov's "Runaround" and "Catch That Rabbit"; Mike Christie verified them in the 1942 and 1944 magazine appearances. Enoch Forrester submitted a cite from a 1965 reprint of E.E. Smith's 1934 "Triplanetary". Dan Tilque submitted a cite from E.E. Smith's "Galactic Patrol"; Mike Christie verified it in the 1937 original magazine appearance. Rick Hauptmann submitted a 1932 cite for the form "vision-plate" from J. M. Walsh's "The Vanguard to Neptune". Rick Hauptmann submitted a 1932 cite from Frank K. Kelly's "The Crisis with Mars". Edward Bornstein submitted a cite from a 1978 reprint of Murray Leinster's "Proxima Centauri": Isaac Wilcott verified this in the story's 1935 first publication. Rick Hauptmann submitted a 1931 cite for the form "visiray plate" from E.E. Smith's "Spacehounds of IPC". Enoch Forrester submitted a 1985 cite from Rob Chilson's "Passing in the Night". Rick Hauptmann submitted a 2003 cite from Michael Swanwick's "Legions in Time". Robert Dana submitted a cite from a 1966 reprint of E.E.'Doc' Smith's "Skylark Three"; Isaac Wilcott verified this in the 1930 first publication.
Last modified	16 July, 2009

Citations for visiplate n.

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1930 Amazing Stories Sept. 548/2	Finally, when the picture filled the entire visiplate, they arrived at theoutermost edge of the galaxy.
1930 E.E. Smith Skylark Three in Amazing Stories Oct. 615/1	Ten enormous supporting forces held the lens of neutronium immovable in the exact center of the upper end; at intervals down the shaft similar forces held variously-shaped lenses and prisms formed from zones of force; in the center of the bottom or floor of the towering structure was the double controlling system, with a universal visiplate facing each operator.
1937 E. E. Smith in Astounding Stories Sept. 23/1	‘Needlers, fire at will!’barked Kinnison, and even that feeble resistance was ended. Keen-eyed needle-ray men, working at spy-ray visiplates, bored hole after hole into the captive, seeking out and destroying the control-panels of the remaining beams and screens.
1950 R. Heinlein Farmer in Sky (1975) viii. 83	The rest of the ship was cut in by visiplate.
1965 E. E. Smith Triplanetary 154	Costigan turned away from the absorbing scenes pictured upon the visiplate and faced his two companions.
1965 E. E. Smith Triplanetary 148	At Costigan's insistance, he came up to the visiplate, leaving near the door three alert and fully-armed guards.
2003 M. Swanwick Legions in Time in Asimov's Sci. Fiction Apr. 83	Ellie shrieked, and threw her purse over the visi-plate. ‘Don't listen to him!’ she ordered Nadine. ‘See if you can find a way of turning this thing off!’