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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
To obscure the origin of the cell phone a little:
From the Dick Tracy comic strip as early as 1946:
Of course who could forget that later additions to Dick Tracy of Moon Maid [first appeared on 12/29/1963]. Of course that hasn't happened and won't, but there was the space coup
Of course in the non-SF forerunner there were 1950s mobile phones. Well car phones that could be used just as a landline could be.
I'm sure that the Nautilus [20,000 Leagues Under the Sea submarine] was not nuclear powered, but was electrically powered. Real submarines date back to the early 17th Century, but Americans used one in 1776 in an attempt to sink a British war ship.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-h...bmarine-attack |
Having read 20,000 Leagues, it doesn't say what kind of power but it is a small generator plant not electricity.
Why I specified a nuclear powered submarine.
Thanks on the cell and mobile phone strips.