The Cometeers

Although the usage of this term as a bend or curvature in space which facilitates travel can be traced to several works as far back as the mid-1930s.

For example, Jack Williamson's The Cometeers, 1936.

It goes back.

We are talking about a spaceship that would likely have a warp drive or a warp emitter system that creates a shield and creates a disturbance or warping of space-time by means of conditioned pulsed electromagnetic radiation.