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stoo_pid | 10:56 Wed 02nd Feb 2005 | Film, Media & TV
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Anyone know which was the first sci-fi movie (or book?) that came up with the concept of a tractor- beam?
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I'm 99% sure that it's Arthur C Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey

I believe that 2001 was written in 1968.

Star Trek started in 1965, though I don't know when they first featured a Tractor-beam.

E.E. "Doc" Smith has them in 1942's Grey Lensman: http://technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=695
What about old Flash Gordon or Dan Dare films, any there?
I was going to say E E 'Doc' Smith, but cite the 'Skylark' series which was first published in '46. Don't remember them in Lensman (but it must be 25 years since I read them!!), so I'd agree with LeMarchand.

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