RAY OF DEATH

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 169, 13 April 1932, Page 7

RAY OF DEATH

Discovery of Secret CLAIMS OF INVENTOR A ray that will burn up a rat in a flush, that will clip in half plates of steel in one swift application, that will stop electric trains and motorears travelling at high speed—this invention is claimed by Mr. Ludwig Nudl, scientist and inventor, who has been responsible for the electrical equipment of Mr. Norman (“Wizard”! Smith’s racing car at Ninety Mile Beach, says the “Auckland Star.” For many years scientists have sought the “mystery” ray dr “death” ray. but always without success. Mr. Nudl, who has lived in Melbourne for the past seventeen years, claims that he is close to success. Mr. Nudl is a Swiss by birth and was some time ago engineer and chemist at the famous German factories of MercedesBenz and Robert Bosch. Mr. Nudl believes- that he is on the fringe of a great invention. Already, by means of his ray, he. says he has stopped motor-cars and burned rats and steel. He also says he was ordered to go fifty miles out of Melbourne to carry out his tests, because be was able to interfere with electric trains a liiile distant ! Mr. Nudl has spent many years in working on this discovery, which be says is based on the electro-ionic theory, and in practical form is merely a small electrode which, used in any electrical circuit, “steps up” \ current to immeasurable power; in fact, absorbs ordinary current and passes it on a,s a ray. One such metal electrode, says Mr. Nudl, was coupled up to a six-volt battery and then to a cage containing a large rat. If destroyed the rat without leaving, a trace in a single flash. Sheets of-steel have been clipped in half under a single swift application of the ray, and the electrical systems on cars travelling at high speeds have been instantly stopped. Those achievements reveal the destructive uses of the newly-discovered force, but Mr. Nudl aims to 'make it a force of utility, not destruction.