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Re: Tractor beam?
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Thu, 28 Dec 2000 16:34:01 GMT
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Dave Schuler wrote in message ...
Does anyone know who coined this term and when it might first have crept
into the scifi lexicon?

  I've always wondered that myself. I know it's mentioned in Star Wars
in episode 4.. Earlier than that they were used a lot in the original
Star Trek series. Beyond that, I have no idea.

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  Tractor beam?
 
Does anyone know who coined this term and when it might first have crept into the scifi lexicon? Dave! (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)

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