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On a much larger scale there is Ringworld, which incorporated a Dyson Ring, which is a variation on a Dyson Sphere[1], which was apparently inspired by a 1937 novel (according to the Wikipedia link).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere



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