SUPERSONIC DEATH RAY FOR INSECTS
NZPA Copyright Rec. 9 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 7. There are no flies on Herman Wolf, says Reuter’s Hamburg correspondent. Wolf, a 47-year-old Hamburg engineer, pressed a button and—he says—all the flies in his basement workship fell dead. He was testing his supersonic death ray.” He said Re hoped to sell the ray device for 900 marks (about £BO sterling) next summer. He claimed it would kill insects—but not men—with high frequency sound waves inaudible to the human ears. The device looks-like a small radio set.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27541, 8 November 1950, Page 7
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