Full record for artificial gravity n.

OED requirements	antedating 1930
Comment	Enoch Forrester submitted a cite from a reprint of Robert Sheckley's "Milk Run"; Mike Christie verified it in the original 1954 magazine appearance. OED has a quotation from Olaf Stapleton in 1930.
Last modified	23 February, 2005

Citations for artificial gravity n.

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1954 R. Sheckley in Galaxy Sept. 126/1	‘I'm looking it up right now. Hmm‥ you didn't produce artificial gravity, did you?’‘Of course. To let the Queels feed.’‘Shouldn't have done that‥. Queels are light-gravity creatures‥. When they're subjected to an unusual—for them—gravity, they shrink down to microscopic size, lose consciousness and die.’‘But you told me to produce artificial gravity.’
1986 D. Carey Dreadnought v.69	The ship whined, straining against its own artificial gravity, creating a gyro effect.