inertial dampener n.

1998 ‘L. A. Graf’ War Dragons ii. 23 page image Julia Ecklar Karen Rose Cercone bibliography
The catwalk on which I was standing shook with subsonic vibrations as inertial dampeners cut in to compensate.

Research requirements

any evidence 1998

Earliest cite

L. A. Graf & M. J. Friedman. 'War Dragons'

Research History

Suggested by Jeffrey Glen Jackson.
Ralf Brown, from an etext, suggested Terence West's "Exodus: Europa" (2005) as a source for cites: we would like to see a cite from a printed copy of this book.

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