What is "pressor beams"

Usage examples of "pressor beams".

The ward compartment has gravity control in half-G settings from zero to five, provision for the supply of a variety of gaseous and liquid atmospheres, and both material and non-material forms of restraint-straps and pressor beams, that is- should the casualty be confused, aggressive or require immobilization for medical examination or surgery.

With no power to spare for pressor beams to lift us to an area of sea that is clear of ships, it will have to be an environmentally un­.

Your foresight in stuffing that hulk with tractor and pressor beams.

The walls, ceiling and floor held devices that Janille recognized as the business ends of tractor and pressor beams.

Carve out big chunks of granite and use your tractor and pressor beams to lay them up like giant bricks.

It was necessary to clear a path through the struggling, wealth-mad Orientals with the aid of the tractor and pressor beams.

When we fired rockets at them, they turned them back with tractor and pressor beams.

Then three small areas of vegetation were flattened suddenly and driven downward into shallow craters as the ship's pressor beams reached out to support it on immaterial, shock-absorbing stilts.

By the way they're braced, there are tractor beams and pressor beams and-there are vacuum tubes that have grids but apparently work with cold cathodes.

Tractor and pressor beams, and the ship's fuel not quite gone, and the suspended animation cases opening from the inside- There was a slender, coaxial cable connecting the two spacecraft, now.