“DEATH RAY”
INVENTOR FEARS EFFECTS FLYING PIGEONS KILLED CLEVELAND. Oct. 20. Death "rays" may strike down millions of human beings if flic European war continues. Dr. Antonio Longoria. a wealthy Cleveland scientist and inventor, told the United Press last night. Dr. Longoria said he perfected n death-ray apparatus in 1933 and killed pigeons on the wing at four miles. Later he destroyed the machine because of its inherent danger. ■Jt is quite possible that someone may stumble across the particular electric wave I used," said Dr. Longoria. who in 1930 sold a welding process described as "impossible" by others for a reputed JH.200,000. “I found it accidentally myself, and 1 certainly am not proud of that discovery.
“The machine killed small animals and it coijld kill human beings just as easily. The ‘rav’ lies in one of the unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the X-ray. It kills painlessly.' without: burning, by changing the blood to a useless substance —as light changes silver salts in photography. "But I don't like to talk about it. because it could wreck civilisation. I’ll have nothing to do with it. My hands will be clean.’’
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20103, 24 November 1939, Page 5
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192“DEATH RAY” Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20103, 24 November 1939, Page 5
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