chronolog

The enemy would be, no, were handicapped by the difficulty of reaching a precise goal without a chronolog.

There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

Given it, and information carried forth by its members, and that precise timing which the chronolog made possible, and plans hammered out by a team which included professional soldiers, tested and rehearsed over and over on a mockup of the Eyrie itself ... given this, Havig's victory was inevitable.

There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

Yes, they let me fetch my chronolog from where I'd hidden it, though I pleaded language difficulties to avoid telling them what it was.

There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

The chronolog could have given him the exact date, had he wanted to shoot the stars again; its detectors included sensitivities to those radiations which pierce an overcast.

There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

"Your chronolog gadget is an example of twentieth-century thinking," I continued.

There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

In his left hand hung the chronolog, in his right was clutched a flat case containing the life of his girl.

There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

The chronolog he carried, like other leaders elsewhere and elsewhen, would identify an exact place before he set it for an equally precise instant.

There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

And suddenly parachutes bloomed overhead, as those who had leaped out of a twentieth-century airplane, each with his chronolog, entered this day.

There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

He hadn't yet revealed the fact of his chronolog and must find his target by the tedious process of counting sun-traverses, adding an estimate of days missed, making an initial emergence, and zeroing in by trial and error.

There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

And I passed the chronolog off as a radionic detector and transmitter, built in case visitors to the past had such gear in use.

There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972