Briton Who Invented the Death Ray ; at Last, Tribute to the Forgotten Genius Who Was Light Years Ahead of His Time [Scot Region]
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CURSES! Ming the Merciless is assembling his intergalactic troops on Planet Mongo and is about to annihilate Earth! There's only one thing for it - send for Harry Grindell Matthews.
Who? Er ... That'll be Harry 'Death Ray' Grindell Matthews, eccentric British inventor and the genius behind a real-life laser- gun that Flash Gordon and his comic-book colleagues could only have dreamed of in the 1920s.See the full content of this document
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Briton Who Invented the Death Ray ; at Last, Tribute to the Forgotten Genius Who Was Light Years Ahead of His Time [Scot Region]
Mr Grindell Matthews designed the fiendish machine in the wake of the 1914-18 war as a weapon for knocking enemy aircraft out of the sky.
It so inspired public imagination that the 'ray gun' became the...See the full content of this document
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