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--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Logsdon" wrote:
> From: Brett Sargeant [mailto:bsarge@h...]
>
> "It is based on an O'Neill Cylinder."
>
> That was my assumption too, until I realized that Clarke's book was
> copyrighted in `73, three years before O'Neill's! Perhaps, some of
O'Neill's
> students read Clarke, and borrowed some ideas? Either way, the design is
> sound, but it does cause one furiously to wonder...
>
> I'm not saying we need to start calling the habitats `Clarkes', but
if this
> checks out, I might have to start a campaign to make sure the first
one is
> named after the correct person. Hmmm...
>
> Dave
> "Why get excited about anything that doesn't go straight up?" Arthur C.
> Clarke, 1952
>
Well, you will have to go back to at least 1930 when Jack Williamson
had "The Prince of Space" published in AMAZING (Jan'30). I believe
that Gryphon Press has a reprint of it in print.