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Alsop, Joseph W., Jr. "Beam to Kill Army at 200 Miles Tesla's claim on 78th Birthday," N. Y. Herald Tribune, July 11, 1934, pp. 1, 15. (Beam of force similar to death ray, involves four electrical devices. Can also be used in peacetime to transmit power over distances limited only by the curvature of the earth.) (n)
"Tesla at 78," N. Y. World Telegram, July 12, 1934. (In 1900 Tesla had an electrical oscillation cure for tuberculosis in its worst stages. Now announces plans for projecting beams of particles as a war instrument.) (n)
"Scientists Doubt Death Ray Effect," N. Y. World Telegram, July 13, 1934. (Prof. E. R. Wood places little faith in effectiveness of the death beam. No scientists have actually witnessed demonstration of other reported death beams.) (n)
"Tesla Calls 'Death Beam' Boon To Industry," The Detroit News, July 15, 1934. (Chief value of discovery is transmission of power without wires.) (n)
O'Neill, J. J. "Scores of Death-Ray Inventors Still Await Future," N. Y. Herald Tribune, July 15, 1934, sec. II, p. 4. (Discusses various types of rays, and their characteristics. Nikola Tesla's ray is still an unknown factor since he has not divulged details of his apparatus.) (n)
"Tesla's Death Ray," Detroit Free Press, July 16, 1934, p. 6. (n)
"Tesla: Inventor Has Scheme for Dealing Out Death Wholesale," Newsweek, July 21, 1934, p. 25. (Tesla has devised an invisible death ray capable of shooting down 10,000 airplanes at 250 miles from apparatus.) (p)
"The Death Ray Bobs Up Again," Chicago Tribune, July 22, 1934. (Dr. Tesla says he has discovered a strange force ray that can destroy an army 100 miles away. Death ray consists of particles.) (n)
"Tesla's Ray," Time, July 23, 1934, pp. 48, 49. (Consists of concentrated beam of sub-microscopic particles at velocities approaching that of light. Would stop armies or a fleet of aircraft.) (p)
Laskovitch, Jov. "Tesla's Nationality, " Detroit News, July 24, 1934, p. 16, col. 5. (Letter to editor. Tesla said to be a Serb.) (n)
Tesla, Nikola. "Tesla on Power Development and Future Marvels," N. Y. World Telegram, July 24, 1934. (Source of reference is Prodigal Genius by J. J. O'Neill, p. 241. Reply to articles of June 29, July 12, and July 13, 1934. Praises Westinghouse and Insul to create the power system he had barely suggested in 1893. With regard to death ray effect, Tesla employs an agent in which intensity does not diminish with the square of the distance.) (n)
"Why 'Death Rays' Do Not Work, Tho Many Have Been Invented," Literary Digest, July 26, 1934, p. 18. (It remains to be seen if Dr. Tesla has something revolutionary to upset the known laws of physics.) (p)
