Roosevelt s vice president henry wallace mentioned in the declassified fbi records as having advisors discuss the effects of tesla particularly those dealing with the wireless transmission of electrical energy and the death ray.

Schematic nikola tesla death ray background. A death ray a weapon to destroy hundreds or even thousands of aircraft at hundreds of miles range and his ultimate weapon to end all war the tesla shield which nothing could penetrate. Multimode tesla weapon scalar potential interferometer in the 1930 s tesla announced other bizarre and terrible weapons. Ironically the newspapers gave another name to the new invention. He referred to peace rays which like the great wall of china could protect the border of any state.

Picking up the death ray stories on the wire services on the other side of the world the colorado springs gazette ran a local interest item on may 30th. He became addicted to gambling in his final year and fearing humiliation let his friends and. Tesla discovered death ray in experiments he made here the story recounted with a feeling of local pride the inventor s 1899 researches financed by john jacob astor. Tesla theorised that a system like the death ray would be key to unlocking large scale wireless power distribution koscho said.

Tesla s described the idea of the death ray a gigantic electrostatic generator run by one of his turbines to accelerate tiny particles of mercury to produce such a beam of super high powered bullets of several million volts. Wikimedia commons nikola tesla imagine a beam of energy that could bring down planes from miles away with nothing but electricity. Nikola tesla s death ray at the threshold of world war ii nikola tesla suddenly announced to the world to have designed weapons to end all wars. This man conceived of the kind of technology we re building today only a hundred years ago the story of nikola tesla s birth and life are almost as incredible as his own designs.

Despite his reputation as a child genius engineer inventor and physicist nikola tesla never graduated from university. What s more the white house was vitally interested in the effects of the death ray with franklin d.

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