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“Certainly, Dr. Arcot. They are to be under your
commands.”
The party, increased to five now, returned to the ship,
where Arcot showed the men the details of the ray pis-
tols, and how to use them. The control for direction of
operation of the ray was rather intricate on these early
models, and required considerable explanation. The
range of even these small weapons was infinite in space,
according to theory, but in air the energy was rather
rapidly absorbed by ionization of the air, and the dispersion of the beam made it ineffective in space over a
range of more than thirty-five miles. However, the
larger ship projectors had a longer range, and these
were certainly sufficient for their purpose as hand
weapons.
compare to the heat ray from War of the Worlds (1898) by HG Wells, the death-ray from The World Masters (1903) by George Griffiths, the
short-wave surgical knife from Boomerang (1953) by Eric Frank Russell, the
pencil heat ray from Brigands of the Moon (1930) by Ray Cummings and the
flesh gun from The Computer Connection (1974) by Alfred Bester. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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