Death Rays and the Popular Media, 1876-1939
Death rays! Absurd idea peddled by con artists and amateurs and promoted by a sensationalist press? Not quite. Government and military leaders and mainstream scientists endorsed the possibility of such a fantastic weapon in the years before World War II.
A concept born out of research with electricity and other energy sources, the death ray or "directed energy weapon" was widely reported for ...
Death rays! Absurd idea peddled by con artists and amateurs and promoted by a sensationalist press? Not quite. Government and military leaders and mainstream scientists endorsed the possibility of such a fantastic weapon in the years before World War II.
A concept born out of research with electricity and other energy sources, the death ray or "directed energy weapon" was widely reported for ...
