Also in Heinlein's "Have Space Suit Will Travel" (c 1958)-- not the one the main character uses at the beginning, but ones provided later in the story by the good-guy aliens.
Point of order, people -- this was a Federal District Court, part of the national court system. It happens to sit in Illinois, but its jurisdiction includes a goodly chunk of the country (much more than Illinois) and, unless reversed on appeal by a higher Federal court (or if other district court(s) made decisions that differed materially), can set precedent for the entire country (not that a default judgement will set much of a precedent).
Its jurisdiction does not, of course, go beyond the borders of the United States.
Slow Glass indeed. Bob Shaw's classic Light of Other Days appeared in Analog Magazine in 1966! Such a shame that most of his stuff is out of print.
His basic premise was to make windowpanes (and perhaps mirrors? don't recall) out of the stuff, which passed light over a period of time -- days, months, even years -- and explore the implications (for example, solving mysteries and belatedly convicting criminals or exonerating those unjustly accused). He did it well.
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Also in Heinlein's "Have Space Suit Will Travel" (c 1958)-- not the one the main character uses at the beginning, but ones provided later in the story by the good-guy aliens.
... and the power for this electrolysis process will come from where?
Point of order, people -- this was a Federal District Court, part of the national court system. It happens to sit in Illinois, but its jurisdiction includes a goodly chunk of the country (much more than Illinois) and, unless reversed on appeal by a higher Federal court (or if other district court(s) made decisions that differed materially), can set precedent for the entire country (not that a default judgement will set much of a precedent).
Its jurisdiction does not, of course, go beyond the borders of the United States.
As always, IANAL.
I have more than one VCR, that's how. It's not as if they're particularly expensive ...
[re 1)] I'm pretty sure that you cannot patent a concept or idea -- only an implementation of that idea.
"Data crystals"!
Slow Glass indeed. Bob Shaw's classic Light of Other Days appeared in Analog Magazine in 1966! Such a shame that most of his stuff is out of print.
His basic premise was to make windowpanes (and perhaps mirrors? don't recall) out of the stuff, which passed light over a period of time -- days, months, even years -- and explore the implications (for example, solving mysteries and belatedly convicting criminals or exonerating those unjustly accused). He did it well.