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1943 โA. Bladeโ Carbon-Copy Killer in Amazing Stories July 187/1
Just as a picture is reproduced at the receiving end in a series of lines which lie closely packed in the same plane, this machine of the professorโs genius scans the body in all its details by means of an x-ray, duplicating every cell in its entirety in a carbon simulation. As the scanner passed over Paulaโs body, the carbon particles in the cabinet were arranged into an exact duplication of her body down to the last particle. |
