AN INVENTOR

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1932, Page 8

AN INVENTOR

GREAT POSSIBILITIES. AUCKLAND. April 11. ' rav that will burn up a rat in a flash, that will clip in half plates of steel in one swift application, that will stop electric trains and motor cars traveling at high speed—this invention is claimed by Mr Ludwig Nudl, scientist and inventor, who has been responsible for the electrical equipment of Mr Norman (“Wizard”) Smith’s racing car at Ninety Mile Beach. For many years scientists have soughf the “mystery” ray or “death” ray. hut always without success. Air Nudl, who has liver! in Melbourne for the past seventeen years, claims that lie is close to success. Mr Nudl is a Swiss by birth, and was some time emrinoer and chemist at the famous German factories of Mercedes-Benz and Robert Bosch. Air Nudl believes that he is on the j fringe of a great invention. Already ] by means of his ray, lie says he has stopped motor-cars, and burned rats and steel. He also says he was ordered to go fifty miles out of Melbourne to carry out his tests, because he was able to interfere with electric trains a mile distant!

Mr Nudl has spent many years in working on this discovery, which he says is based on the electro-ionic theory and in practical form is merely a small electrode, which, used in any electrical cd remit, "steps up” icurrent to immeasureahle power, in fact absorbs ordinary current' and passes it on as i( ray. One such metal electrode, says Air Nudl, was coupled up to a six-volt battery and then to a cage containing - large rat. It destroyed the rat without- leaving a trace, in a single flash. Sheets of steel have been clipped in half under a single swift anplicat'cn o' the ray. and the electrical systems on cars travelling at high speeds have been instantly stopped. Those achievements reveal the destructive uses of the newly discovered force, but Mr Nudl aims to make it a force of utility, not destruction.