Supersonic Death Ray For Flies
LONDON, Nov. 7 (Rec. 6 pm).— There are no dies on Herman Wolf, says Reuters Hamburg correspondent. Wolf, a 47-year-old Hamburg engineer, pressed a button and—he says—all flies in his basement workshop fell dead. He was testing his “supersonic death ray.” He said he hoped to sell the ray device for 900 marks, about £BO each next summer He claimed that it would kill insects but not men, with high frequency sound waves inaudible to human ears. The device looks like a small radio set
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Wanganui Chronicle, 8 November 1950, Page 5
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