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>In early SF (including Clarke's own books) ships were turned by reaction wheels.

Certainly you see that n a lot of Hainlein's stuff. "Clutching" or "unclutching" the gyro/flywheel comes up repeatedly as the Rolling Stone maneuvers, for example.

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