SciFi crossword

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Across
  1. 2. While Jules Verne is perhaps most famous for his fictional submarine, the Nautilus, the French author also envisioned the future of flight
  2. 3. fascinated with spaceflight after reading an 1898 newspaper serialization of H.G. Wells’ classic novel about a Martian invasion
  3. 6. two silver paddles wired to an outlet
  4. 8. “Taser” is an acronym for one of Swift’s fictional inventions
  5. 9. “thimble radios,” which provided “an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk.”
  6. 10. “artificial” atomic energy
  7. 12. He hypothesized “robot-brain” cars
  8. 14. The Soviet Union’s ­Salyut program launched a 65-foot ­cylinder in 1971
Down
  1. 1. portending VR, complete with goggles
  2. 3. the classic sci-fi tale of artificial intelligence unfurls
  3. 4. transform beef’s chemical elements into synthetic burgers
  4. 5. Martin Cooper credited several “Star Trek” technologies
  5. 7. Seashell radio device is tucked inside the ear
  6. 11. autonomous small flying vehicles
  7. 13. Lake’s innovations included ballast tanks, divers’ compartments and the periscope