fifteen-thousand-and-odd

Updated: August 3, 2026

LIFT!" He touched a button and a set of plunger switches drove home, releasing into the forty-five enormous driving projectors the equilibrium power the fifteen-thousand-and-odd kilofranks of energy that exactly counterbalanced the pull of gravity upon the mass of the cruiser.

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Spacehounds of IPC