Specially Named Inventions and Technological Devices
Accelerated Plant Growing Farms: Huge greenhouse farms used to feed the rapidly growing Earth population. They can grow five harvests per year as opposed to normal harvests of two in 1911.
Aeroflyer: A small flying transport that can reach speeds of up to 600 mph.
Appetizer: A large waiting room in more scientifically advanced restaurants. The room is flooded with gases that increase the appetites/hunger before eating.
Automatic-Electric Packing Machines
Bacillatorium: A decontamination chamber for the home. It uses fictional Arcturium Rays to kill bacteria, which can extend a person's total life expectancy to 120–140 years.
Electromobiles: Basically an electric powered car that receives energy through a collector mast from city generators.
Gyroscope: This is used to fly to other planets. Rocket propulsion is not mentioned at all. The rotation of a gyroscope can be used to counter vertical gravity.
Helio-Dynamophores: Basically solar panels. To minimize atmospheric interference, Meteoro-Towers are used.
Hypnobioscope: A sleep learning device. Information is recorded on black film as a white wavy line that is transmitted to the sleeper via wires into a headband with metal plates.
Luminor: An automated lighting system that responds to voice commands to activate and change intensity of illumination. This is an example of fluorescent lighting or cold light, but the term fluorescent lighting is not used in the story.
Menograph: A device that can record a person's thoughts in writing using a type of mind-script.
Money: The value of money is based on the faith and credit of the government. It can be dispensed like a roll tape. Denominations can be torn off the tape. No mention of electronic money is made.
Meteoro-Towers: Weather control stations.
Newspaper: A postage stamp sized newspaper consisting of 8 pages. It can only be read by inserting it into a projector or portable viewer to see the very tiny print. Each page can be revealed by exposing it to a different color of light, which will also hide the other 7 pages from sight. It is updated every 30 minutes. No mention of electronic news or an internet is made.
Packet-Post Conveyer: Underground postal delivery system using conveyor belts.
Permagatol: A green gas that preserves organic matter indefinitely without any deterioration whatsoever.
Phonolphabet Machine: A voice recorder that records speech graphically using a phonolphabet language. One can either read the recording or play it back as an audio recording.
Platinum-Barium-Arturium Eyeglasses: Basically X-Ray specs that really work, except they can only detect Radium infused elements through solid matter.
Pulsating Polarized Ether Wave: Basically a type of RADAR device before the word RADAR was coined.
Radioperforer: A handheld weapon that shoots Radium beams that can stun or kill.
Signalizers: A searchlight guidance system for flying machines consisting of multiple colors and blinking patterns
Space Flyer: An interplanetary flying machine using gyroscopes.
Subatlantic Tube: An underground train that uses magnetism to move 300 mph. The path of the tube is through the Earth to make a direct path from Europe to North America.
Telautograph: A device to transfer handwriting through a Telephot (picture phone). Basically a fax machine, except handwriting transfers as the person writes.
Tele-Motor Coasters
Telephot: This is basically a picture phone. It also includes a universal translator, where language translation can be opted using a dial control.
Teleradiograph
Tele-Theater: This is like a television, but with differences. It is really a series of telephots that almost seamlessly combine to make up one large picture. Live events like an opera or a play can be seen from one's home with this device. Communications can be made in both directions while the device is broadcasting. It is not mentioned if it can be used to show previously recorded entertainment.
Vacation City: A domed city suspended 20,000 feet in the air using a device that nullifies gravity. No mechanical devices are permitted in such cities because they are strictly used as an escape from a mechanized world.
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