pseudo-gravitation n.
Rare.
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1941
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Robert A. Heinlein
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Yet the pseudogravitation, the false weight, achieved by the spin of the ship, persisted.
Methuselah's Children in Astounding Science-Fiction Sept. 138/1 -
1947
Jack Williamson
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He knew the fine-spun theories of counterspace, of inverse curvature, of pseudo-gravitation and negative entropy.
Legion of Space xii. 111 -
1953
Robert A. Heinlein
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The hotel that guaranteed to supply any combination of pressure, temperature, lighting, atmosphere, pseudogravitation.
Starman Jones (1975) iii. 38
Research requirements
any evidence 1941
Earliest cite
Robert Heinlein, in Astounding
Research History
Rick Hauptmann submitted a cite from a 1947 reprint of Jack Williamson's "The Legion of Space"; Mike Christie and Jeff Prucher checked the original serialization in 1935 and determined that the citation did not appear there.Mike Christie's comments on rasfw: "plausible but I just don't think [it's] that common."
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