matter transmitter n.
a device for conveying matter over a distance by transforming it into energy or information, beaming this to another location, and reconstituting the original matter at the destination; cf. matter transmission n.
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[1930
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John W. Campbell, Jr.
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Of the fleet of ten great ships, and the accompanying matter-sender, six ships returned. The rest floated out there in the interplanetary space around Betelguese.]
The Voice of the Void in Amazing Stories Quarterly Summer 392/1 -
1931
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Leslie F. Stone
With me at her side, Geble hastened to the beam station and there in the matter transmitter we dispatched our physical beings to the palace at Tola.
Conquest of Gola in Wonder Stories Apr. 1280/1 -
1931
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Edmond Hamilton
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This the Martians told us, and said they would set up a matter transmitter and receiver on Mars and would aid and instruct us so that we could set up a similar transmitter and receiver here. Then part of us could be flashed out to Mars as radio vibrations by the transmitter, and in moments would have flashed across the gulf to the red planet and would be transformed back from radio vibrations to matter-vibrations by the receiver awaiting us there!
Monsters of Mars in Astounding Stories Apr. 7/1 -
1946
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Murray Leinster
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This very vessel, however, was used by Sten Rendell when the first human colonists came in it to Alphin III, bringing with them the matter transmitter which enabled civilization to enter upon and occupy the planet on which you stand.
The Disciplinary Circuit in Thrilling Wonder Stories Jan. 44/1 -
1956
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John Brunner
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The matter transmitter, isn’t it? You scan the molecular structure of the thing you want to ship and pipe it down a radio beam.
Host Age in New Worlds Science Fiction Jan. 7 -
1969
Thomas M. Disch
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The captain’s position in the military establishment had brought him…into contact with that phenomenon which, of all the phenomena of the age, was most advanced, most contemporary, most at the forefront of the future—with, in short, the matter transmitter.
Echo Round His Bones (1970) 13
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1991
Alan Dean Foster
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Now somebody’s gonna have to explain away that matter transmitter. Or are you going to tell me it was a Kodak moment that brought us all the way across the Andes.
Cat.a.lyst ix. 133
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1998
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Don D'Ammassa
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The human race is rapidly reuniting after a diaspora that left colonies of genuinely ethnic diversity as well as a number of artificially created ones scattered through the universe. The discovery of the springer, a matter transmitter, has made it possible to reunite these diverse worlds.
Critical Mass in Science Fiction Chronicle June 39/1 (review of John Barnes’ Earth Made of Glass) -
2013
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Michael Moorcock
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Later, I worked on a matter transmitter for the Pentagon. I tested it on myself. It went wrong. I was dragged back to old Mars instead.
Lost Canal in Old Mars (2015) 375
Research requirements
antedating 1931
Earliest cite
L. F. Stone, in Wonder Stories
Research History
Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 2013 cite from Michael Moorcock.In the OED, with an earliest date of 1931.
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