Anti-gravity circuit

The anti-gravity circuit, also known as the anti-gravity engine, (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker) anti-grav engine, (PROSE: The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids) or anti-gravity circuits plural, (PROSE: A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol) was a device which could be tacked onto a machine and enabled it to fly, free of gravity.

Clockwork Cherubs of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids needed to have anti-gravity circuits, and to have them switched on, to be able to fly. (PROSE: The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, The Time of the Toymaker, etc.) According to “legend”, it was “when building the original Cupid Prototype” that the Creator realised that the wings with which she had outfitted her creations were very much unable to generate enough lift for “two-foot-tall humanoids largely made of solid copper alloy”. In typical fashion, “the Creator reacted not by scrapping the wings, but by developing anti-grav engines as a side-project”. (PROSE: The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids)

Their use was not universal; for example, Philatel-426 rarely wore his, as he found them cumbersome, (PROSE: A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol) and Juliet-178 was actually officially banned by the Cupid Parliament from using an anti-grav engine, although she owned one anyway. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)