toposcope

Once this gadget, which was called a toposcope, was adjusted to their satisfaction, the monitors left, and the room began to fill with the gray gas.

Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

Now he had but ffteen minutes more in which the toposcope would continue to vomit forth its confusion-its steadily diminishing confusion-and only an hour before even his physical appearance would reorganize, though that would no longer matter in the least.

Anywhen Blish, James 1970

A Style in Treason And when he saw the Guild's toposcope laboratory, he wondered if even the serum would be enough to protect him.

Anywhen Blish, James 1970

Yet the end - result of all this was almost surely not true sleep, but simply a divorcing of his mind from every possible bodily distMction which might have come between him and his fullest attention to the visions and voices which were poured directly into his mind through the shining helmet of the toposcope.

Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

Luckily, he had the sense to admit that he had skipped drinking the anticonvulsant drug the day before; and the records of the patterns of electrical activity of his brain which the toposcope had been taking continued to adjudge him a good risk.

Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

A detailed view of the toposcope plinth can be seen on Hyde DP Extra.

Hyde Daily Photo Hyde DP 2010

"I appreciate the intention in putting Snowdon on the toposcope may have been to indicate the general direction of objects of interest, rather than to show what surrounding hills are visible, but nevertheless I think this is misleading."

Shropshire Star 2009

The debate is raging on the website All Friends Round The Wrekin after a critic poured scorn on the "misleading" toposcope at the summit.

Shropshire Star 2009

He said on a recent visit to the summit of The Wrekin that he found the toposcope very useful.

Shropshire Star 2009

There is your document; I wrote it out by hand, but you can have toposcope confirmation whenever you like now. "

Anywhen Blish, James 1970