It sounds like a con, but there was more to Harry Grindell Matthews' machine than you might expect
Nothing about the 18 April 1924 issue of this magazine seems unusual. On the cover, a colourful painting advertising Wolseley’s new Fourteen touring car. In the leader, a plea for drivers to take extra care in the Easter holiday traffic. In the road test, a new four-cylinder saloon from Vauxhall. The main feature, a preview of the British Empire Exhibition, to be held at a grand new purpose-built stadium in Wembley. And in the news, the invention of the invisible death ray. Woah, hang on.
“It is not visible, and we are informed that shielding the engine by means of insulating material, such as thick glass or metal, makes no difference to the control of the engine through the ignition.” We considered: “Imagination is staggered at the future possibilities of such a potent weapon. It has been said that the next war will be almost entirely a war of machinery, but in the light of these experiments, it is questionable there could be any future war.
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