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A remote manipulator, also called a ''telefactor'', and based on the concept of a pantograph. | A remote manipulator, also called a ''telefactor'', and based on the concept of a pantograph. | ||
| − | The term comes from "Waldo," a | + | The term comes from "Waldo," a [[novella]] by [[Robert A. Heinlein]], originally published in ''[[Astounding]]'' in August 1942 under the [[pseudonym]] [[Anson MacDonald]]. (It was famously reprinted in the 1950 collection ''Waldo & Magic, Inc.'') The word was widely adopted, not only in [[sf]], but for the real thing, beginning in [[World War II]]; it got into [[mundane]] dictionaries. |
*[http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=23 Entry at Technovelgy.] | *[http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=23 Entry at Technovelgy.] | ||
Revision as of 10:02, 26 March 2021
(Did you mean the Eric Bentcliffe fanzine?)
A remote manipulator, also called a telefactor, and based on the concept of a pantograph.
The term comes from "Waldo," a novella by Robert A. Heinlein, originally published in Astounding in August 1942 under the pseudonym Anson MacDonald. (It was famously reprinted in the 1950 collection Waldo & Magic, Inc.) The word was widely adopted, not only in sf, but for the real thing, beginning in World War II; it got into mundane dictionaries.
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