![]() ![]() ![]() Scott, an inventor from San Francisco, claimed he was the first to develop a death ray that would destroy human life and bring down planes at a distance. Such armaments are technically known as directed-energy weapons. While based in fiction, research into energy-based weapons inspired by past speculation has contributed to real-life weapons in use by modern militaries sometimes called a sort of "death ray", such as the United States Navy and its Laser Weapon System (LaWS) deployed in mid-2014. In 1957, the National Inventors Council was still issuing lists of needed military inventions that included a death ray. ![]() Scott, Erich Graichen and others claimed to have invented it independently. Around that time, notable inventors such as Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Harry Grindell Matthews, Edwin R. The death ray or death beam was a theoretical particle beam or electromagnetic weapon first theorized around the 1920s and 1930s. A Martian tripod firing its deadly heat ray, from H G Wells' The War of the Worlds ![]()
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