"Invisible Dust" Curtain to Halt War Planes
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"Invisible Dust" Curtain to Halt War Planes
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"Invisible Dust" Curtain to Halt War Planes
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"Invisible dust" which can halt airplane engines in midair and can be hung as a vast curtain or protective wall about a nation's borders to guard against sky invaders is the object of experimentation in Europe. Nikola Tesla, famous inventor, claims he has discovered force rays which can be projected like long curtains and through which planes cannot penetrate.
These rays, he said, would be made of particles, possibly dust of some sort, microscopically fine, driven electrically and projected into walls miles high and 100 miles each in length. The particles would travel with the unheard of velocities of 50,000,000 volts. Ten thousand planes flying into one of these curtains would all be destroyed, the inventor averred, and visioned force projecting plants set up every 200 miles along a nation's borders, each shooting rays 100 miles on either side. Tests of this form of defense are said to have proved successful when several planes flying into such a curtain were forced to land through engine failure. The dust beams would shoot in straight lines and it is said complete and permanent engine failure results when the particles are "breathed" by the motors of a plane. Anti-aircraft guns could project the dust curtains.
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eng
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1934-11
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693
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Alberto Bordignon
Popular Mechanics, v. 62, n. 5, 1934
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