Philip Francis Nowlan

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asterite n. 1933 P. F. Nowlan Buck Rogers in Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics (1986) 186 Encased in armor that was proof against their most destructive weapons, Alura and I went among the Asterites, who were determined to annihilate Martian civilization and conquer Mars for themselves
floater n. 1928 P. F. Nowlan Armageddon—2419 A.D. in Amazing Stories Aug. 427/2 "Floaters" are a later development of "jumpers"—rocket motors encased in inertron blocks and strapped to the back in such a way that the wearer floats, when drifting, facing slightly downward. With his motor in operation, he moves like a diver, head-foremost, controlling his direction by twisting his body and by movements of his outstretched arms and hands. Ballast weights locked in the front of the belt adjust weight and lift. Some men prefer a few ounces of weight in floating, using a slight motor thrust to overcome this. Others prefer a buoyance balance of a few ounces. The inadvertent dropping of weight is not a serious matter. The rocket thrust always can be used to descend. But as an extra precaution, in case the motor should fail, for any reason, there are built into every belt a number of detachable sections, one or more of which can be discarded to balance off any loss in weight.
space gun n. 1 1929 ‘F. Phillips’ Onslaught from Venus in Science Wonder Stories Sept. 327/2 Half the population of the planet Venus hurled itself across the void of space at our own world…. Thousands were estimated by the invaders themselves to have missed the target through errors in calculation, and the imperfection of hurriedly constructed space ‘guns’.
ultraphone n. 1928 P. F. Nowlan Armageddon: 2419 A.D. in Amazing Stories Aug. 427/1 Finally a scout equipped with an ultrophone, which, unlike the ancient radio, operated on the ultronic ethereal vibrations, would pass the warning simultaneously to the headquarters of the Wyoming Gang and other communities within a radius of several hundred miles.
viewplate n. 1928 P. F. Nowlan Armageddon—2419 AD in Amazing Stories Aug. 448/1 I ordered my observer then to switch to the barrage itself. He got a close focus on it, but this showed little except a continuous series of blinding flashes, which, from the viewplate, lit up the entire interior of the ship.