ARCHIMEDES DEATH RAY TV

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ARCHIMEDES DEATH RAY TV

Some believe it was confiscated by the U.S. Archimedes death ray Archimedes Death Ray: Idea Feasibility Testing See video of the experiment (.mov, 7.0 Mb version, 25.3 Mb version, or 69 Mb version) as seen on the TV program the Daily Planet. Given his track record of successful inventions, people were eager to see Tesla's death ray, but he kept curious snoops at bay by telling folks 'It's just about ready.” When Tesla died in 1943, his death ray was nowhere to be found. To the contrary, he said, his 'teleforce' could be used to kill entire armies from 200 miles away and force more than 10,000 enemy airplanes to crash. He explained that a ray could not carry effective energy over great distances without dissipating into the air, because he might have been a genius, but he was also an insufferable pedant. He called his death ray a 'teleforce' and scoffed at the press's use of the science-fiction term. One of the great minds of the 20th century, Nikola Tesla made it known that he had developed a death ray over the course of several decades and he believed it to be his greatest invention. Archimedes died in 212 BC at the age of 75, when Syracuse was captured by Roman forces. Neither the French government nor the British government ever used Matthews's death ray, and it seems likely that the invention was a hoax to collect money. When they continued to demand their own demonstration, Matthews announced that he had sold his death ray to France. The reporters wrote about his fantastic invention, and Matthews awaited his payout from the British military. He told the reporters that his invention was capable of much more, like halting ships at sea and shooting down planes from 4 miles away. With the journalists watching, Matthews used his death ray to kill the engine in a moving motorcycle and to zap a poor mouse to death. Instead, he invited some reporters to his laboratory to watch a demonstration. Strangely, and suspiciously, Matthews ignored their calls. Naturally, the British military wanted to see the death ray in action. An inventor named Harry Grindell Matthews announced in 1923 that he had developed a death ray that used electric energy waves that were powerful enough to shoot both zeppelins and airplanes out of the sky. A few years earlier, at the start of World War I, the British military offered a huge cash prize to anyone who could invent a weapon that would be effective against the German zeppelins. Harry Grindell Matthews and His Mysterious Death Rayįast forward from ancient Greece to 1920s London.