Make: Online : Cameras on bike wheels, death ray, robo-checker player and thinking in glass

Cameras on bike wheels, death ray, robo-checker player and thinking in glass

Med Lightning Camera
Cameras spin on bicycle wheel to film lightning streak, Popular Mechanics - 1936 - Link.

Med Death Ray
Inventor hides secret of "Death Ray" - "Pigeons on the wing instantly killed by death rays from a machine four miles away--that is the feat reputedly accomplished by a deadly apparatus developed by Dr. Antonio Longoria, of Cleveland, Ohio, who recently announced that he had deliberately destroyed the lethal machine for the good of humanity." Popular Science - 1940 - Link.

Med Robot Checkers
Robot checker player is undefeated, Mechanix Illustrated - 1938. Trickery! Likely a person in there... - Link.

Make 694
Thinking in glass, Popular Science - 1947. A look back at some master glass constructionists from the Kellogg Company plant in the 40's - Link.

This and more from the past's future @ Modern Mechanix -Link.

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Posted by: tms10000 on June 8, 2007 at 4:34 PM

re: death ray. too bad the machine was destroyed, it seemed to spread my undonditional love for pigeons quite fittingly. I guess I'll have to go back to wickedlasers.com ...

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Posted by: paulsw on June 8, 2007 at 8:24 PM

Ah yes, the old "changing the blood into a useless substance" trick.

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Posted by: conspiracymania on July 9, 2007 at 10:48 PM

Deathrays? HA HA I have a deathray It also doubles as a light sabre at night :)

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