visor screen n.
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1931 Revolt of the Machines in Astounding Stories July 91/2
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Arthur Leo Zagat
Nat Schachner
An oval visor-screen with its flitting images brought across space the area the switches controlled.
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1936 Isotope Men in Astounding Stories Jan. 68/1
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Nat Schachner
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The visor screen went blank.
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1942 Mr. Biggs Goes to Town in Amazing Stories Oct. 131/2
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Nelson S. Bond
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The visor screen brightened, and we were looking into the scowling pan of none other than the big boss himself.
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1953 Peacemaker in Worlds of If Jan. 74/1
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Alfred Coppel
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Merrilโs face appeared in my visor screen.
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1963 Underfollow in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 68/2
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John Jakes
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On the visor screen a sea-blue Mican, his voice coming through the translator, inquired with contempt whether he was J. Pendennis.
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1973 Bernhard the Conqueror ii. 19
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Sam J. Lundwall
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Bernhard dragged himself into the maneuver chair. He pressed an inviting button under the visor screen, and a picture of the surroundings appeared.
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1983 Four Lords of the Diamond 10
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Jack L. Chalker
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He turned in his desk chair and punched a button. A blank wall blinked and became a visor screen showing an enormous collection of stars.
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1994 Hot Sky at Midnight 110
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Robert Silverberg
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The visor screen on Carpenterโs cabin communicator wasnโt much bigger than a postage stamp, and the resolution was low-grade black-and-white.
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2011 The Departure xxi. 452
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Neal Asher
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Var rechecked her visor screen, seeing all but one of the enforcers retreating along the corridor. [Ibid. 455] Var called up a menu on her visor screen, and keyed into a com icon that was presently dormant.
Research requirements
antedating 1931
Earliest cite
Nathan Schachner and Arthur L. Zagat's 'Venus Mines Incorporated'
Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a 1931 cite from Nathan Schachner and Arthur L. Zagat's 'Venus Mines Incorporated'.
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