spindizzy

• “This is an early Victorian "spindizzy" which lifted the city of Mantua into space for a short time.”

  Making Light: Open thread 136

• “His "spindizzy" motors used a little-known law of physics (still undiscovered) to create their own gravity and their own motive force.”

  A Hole In Space

• “Then, abruptly, the hypothesis and the mathematicians had their first innings; From the many pages of symbols and the mumbled discussions of the possible field-strength of a single electronic pole in rotation, the DillonWagonner gr'vitron polarity generator-almost immediately dubbed the "spindizzy" in honor of what it did - to electron rotation-sprang as if full-born.”

  Cities In Flight

• “A couple of pilots had gone nuts in the "spindizzy," and remembering his own feelings as he watched the sky go by, it was easy to understand.”

  Slingshot

• “A device called a "spindizzy" produced a force-field dome over earth cities (and also allowed them to defy gravity and take off into space!) (Cities in FLight cover)”

  Science Fiction in the News

• “Strictly as a matter of record: spindizzy spells off and on since Tuesday at last; also allergic reaction last night.”

  Monday!

• “As such, in my own personal book, the spindizzy and those floating cities are great.”

  REVIEW: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick

• “A little tipsified, fine, but the whole spindizzy in the bathroom toilet passout God WHOOPS * yurf* has lost whatever faint charm it originally possessed.”

  Skin The Sun, Fall Asleep, Wish Away, The Soul Is cheap

• “I sat thinking of a seraph crucified of an aspiration's whisper of deathless men in spindizzy flight”

  Archive 2005-09-01

• “Because the spindizzy motors worked better for higher mass, his vehicles tended to be big.”

  A Hole In Space

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