SECRET INVENTIONS DEATH RAY

Scientists, futurists and science fiction writers for more than a century were talking about it and fans of science fiction and futurist, so they were setting up for a long time dreams about it. That damage your enemies, which makes them a heap of ashes inadequate or download the portable directed energy weapon!

Concepts, until they passed the ball phasor from the laser gun and the many iterations throughout the years. And yet, this science fiction-based, is based largely on scientific facts. Since the early 20th century, the scientists, based on the ideas put forward by many inventors and scientists, workers tried to develop a directed energy weapon.

Definition:

A "death ray" is the 1920s and 30s that have been proposed by many scientists as the original theoretical particles or electromagnetic weapon. Research for energy-based weapons continues from this initial offer. In most cases, mainly came from science fiction, various applications and recommendations are made in the second half of the 20th century.

History:

In the early 20th century, many scientists claimed that employees create a death ray. For example, in September 1924, British inventor Harry Grindell-Matthews, that can destroy human lives and to reduce air plane on a remote British Air Ministry reported that a death ray.

It is possible to produce a functioning model or army never show it, while the news when American inventor Edwin R. Scott requested to argue  he  was the first to develop a death ray. According to Scott, 1923, in New York's Union College, a German-American professor Charles P. Steinmetz's student spends as protein and was the result of nine years.

1934 Spanish inventor Antonio Longoria, a distance of approximately 6.5 km long, has claimed that he invented a death ray machine that tested the pigeons. They also claimed that kill mice in a thick-walled metal chamber.

However, the inventors providing the most detailed framework for such a device was busy and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. Time Magazine  with an interview in 1934  , Tesla entire fleet, or 400 km that can destroy an entire army from a distance a "telefor by" (or directed energy) has announced the concept of weapons.

Tesla's laboratory in Colorado Springs that produces millions of volts "magnifying transmitter" sit with the photo. Credit: Wikipedia Commons / Century Magazine / Dickenson V. Alley

Tesla, the US Defense Department that moment and tried to concern to many European countries, but none of force to deal with Tesla. Tesla  , 1935  in Liberty Magazine  situated " Ended a machine  " as did his statement in an article titled  :

"I'm the present invention, the" death rays "does not consider the use of the so-called. Rails is not feasible, be produced in the required quantities and because they decrease rapidly as distance. All the energy of New York City (approximately two million horsepower) which turns the beam and could not kill a human being turned into twenty-kilometer project, because, according to well-known laws of physics, was dispersed enough to be ineffective. . My device produces relatively large particles or microscopic size and therefore have a small space, than is possible with rays of any kind, able to spend trillions of times more energy. Thousands horsepower with a finer flux thus be transmitted from the hair, so that nothing can resist. "

Based on the description, the device is positioned close to the coast or near the top of a major infrastructure building will create a large tower can be installed. He argued that these weapons would do the advocacy as defensive in nature; because it, in any country by air, land or sea attack requirement will make it a convenient and 322 km (200 miles) would be too much.

II. During World War II, "death rays" a lot of effort has been expended by the Axis powers to create space called. For example, Imperial Japan, trying to use the microwave magnetron as a weapon created on a large "N-Go" has developed a concept they say.

Dresden, 1945, the city has been destroyed over the town hall (Rathaus) appear. Credit: Wikipedia Commons / Deutsche Fotothek?

Meanwhile, the Nazis, and two projects managed by a particle accelerator known as the researcher has implemented Schiebold containing beryllium rod. Rolf Wideroe second in the leadership, was developed at the Laboratory of Plasma Physics in Dresden until the bombing in February 1945. One year in April, the war approached, the device was detained by the United States. Army.

January 7, 1943, engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla died in the room at the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan. A story in her room quickly, providing the most detailed description to Tesla's hand in a death ray that has developed a scientific article. Alleged these documents by the US military, they asked them for the sake of the war effort.