19th century science fiction author wowing readers with careful description of the atomic spittoons located throughout the rocket ship for astronauts to hygienically dispose of their chewing tobacco.
Okay this is really bugging me but “atomic” was specifically a TWENTIETH century science fiction adjective; fuck, “atomic ashtrays” was even specifically an Asimov thing in Foundation. Science wasn’t even completely 100% convinced that atoms existed as anything except a bookkeeping trick for chemists until the beginning of the 20th century!
yes this scenario is anachronistic in both directions.