Word: spaceship
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...death ray, always exciting to laymen, is an old familiar to scientists. After the interplanetary "spaceship," it is probably the most popular gadget in pseudo-scientific fiction. Even in Herbert George Wells's shrewdly written War of the Worlds (1898), the first act of arriving Martians is to spray spectators with a death beam. In real life death rays have been announced time & again, but never convincingly demonstrated. When one Harry Grinnell-Matthews loudly announced a death ray some years ago in England, Physicist Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins said he would stand 65 ft. from the apparatus...