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	Harry Grindell Matthews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harry Grindell Matthews (1880 - September 11, 1941) was a British inventor who is famous for claiming to have invented a death ray that he could not demonstrate convincingly.
		Harry Grindell Matthews was born 1880 at Winterbourne in Gloucestershire.
		Harry Grindell Matthews died of a heart attack on September 11, 1941.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Grindell_Matthews (1108 words)

	Death Ray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It wasn’t a name he chose for himself, but of all the inventions Harry Grindell Matthews was known for, it was the death ray for which he was both feted and vilified.
		For years Matthews had been fascinated by the idea of communication over distances without the use of wires and, following in Marconi’s footsteps, in 1911 he staged a demonstration of radio telephony, transmitting a message from the ground to B C Hucks flying two miles (3.2km) away and at 600 ft (183m).
		Matthews was convinced he could provide the latter and claimed he had developed a remote control system using cells containing selenium.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/174_deathray.shtml (1226 words)

	Atlanta Falcons Message Boards.. > Death Ray Matthews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Matthews at first ignored their advances, perhaps hoping the government would simply accept his assertion that the ray did as he said.
		Matthews, now in negotiations to sell his invention in France, was persuaded to return to England to demonstrate his âdeath rayâ to the three armed forces on 26 April at noon, one oâclock and 1.30pm.
		Grindell Matthews to Paris, a belated renewal of conversations on this side of the channel, a reopening of negotiations in France and a deluge of claims by rival inventors.
	boards.atlantafalcons.com /lofiversion/index.php?t72656.html (5251 words)

	Guardian \| Death rays
		In 1921, Harry Grindell Matthews produced one of the first talking films, of Shackleton's speech before setting off for Antarctica, but he remains best known for his "death ray".
		But Matthews refused to explain how the device worked, and a military demonstration only caused a light bulb to glow and a small motor to stop.
		A 1924 Path¿ film features Matthews himself operating an impressive, but unfortunately entirely fictional, ray device.This, we can assume, was as close as he got to the real thing.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4990888-111415,00.html (375 words)

	Death Ray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Matthews still believed he had a deal with Royer and was insistent his death ray was all packed and ready to be shipped to France for further development.
		Matthews’ mind, never still, then came up with the idea of the ‘stratoplane’ – a “plane which could fly on the edges of space.” He became a member of the British Interplanetary Society and actively pushed forward ideas which led eventually to the development of rocket technology.
		Matthews hauled these around government departments but as war clouds gathered people had less and less time for Matthews’ speculations.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/174_deathray3.shtml (2007 words)

	Harry Goz - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Harry Goz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Harry Goz - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Harry Goz.
		Harry Goz (February 16, 1932 - September 6, 2003) was a Broadway musical theater actor and also a cartoon voice actor.
		In his later years, Goz became known to a new audience with his role as the voice of Captain Hazel "Hank" Murphy in the Cartoon Network Adult Swim series Sealab 2021.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Harry-Goz.html (200 words)

	Bill of Sale for Harry Grindell Matthews' motor launch 'Undine', 1913 :: Gathering the Jewels
		She became famous as a result of her use by Harry Grindell Matthews, a pioneer in the field of wireless communications as well as voice broadcasting, turning silent films into sound films, and the man that created the 'Death Ray'.
		No financial backing from the government was forthcoming, however, and with the approach of the First World War Grindell Matthews had to stop experimenting for the time being as broadcasting stations and workshops were closed.
		Following the War, he worked on an invention which would introduce sound to the world of cinema but the film industry was not ready for talking pictures and, unfortunately, Grindell Matthews was careless with his invention's patent.
	www.gtj.org.uk /en/item1/28822 (465 words)

	Harry Grindell-Matthews and Winterbourne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		MR H. The death was announced from Swansea Valley yesterday of Mr.
		Harry Grindell-Matthews, electrical research scientist, who was particularly interested in air defence.
		Some years after the last War he claimed to have invented a âdeath-ray," and there was considerable public controversy as to its merits.
	home.freeuk.net /winterbourne/grindellmatthews.htm (333 words)

	Ex Libris Nocturnis - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Grindell-Matthews, whose actual experiments with his new electric ray are here illustrated, while their great possible developments are shown in our double-page drawing, was the principal guest on April 15 at the annual lunch of the Foreign Press Association.
		It's said that truth is sometimes stranger than fiction: in the case of Welsh inventor Harry Grindell-Matthews, that is ever so true.
		Harry Grindell-Matthews dies in 1941 in Clydach, Glamorgan, aged 61.
	www.nocturnis.net /articles/adventure/printable/315/page1.html (3174 words)

	About Facts Net
		Tesla wasn't alone in being accused of using a death ray to cause the Tunguska explosion.
		A scientist living in the Welsh mountains by the name of Harry Grindell-Matthews also was believed to have an electrical death ray.
		The difference between the so called death rays was that Grindell-Matthews's ray didn't seem to possess much power at the time he is accused of using it.
	aboutfacts.net /Mysterious15.htm (767 words)

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		Lee De Forest, inventor of the Audion vacuum tube adopted by many radio broadcasters, pointed out that Nikola Tesla had experimented with a "dirigible torpedo" capable of delivering such destructive power to a ship through remote control.
		Harry Grindell-Matthews of London lead the contenders in this early Star Wars race.
		Grindell-Matthews stated that his destructive rays would operate over a distance of four miles and that the maximum distance for this type of weapon would be seven or eight miles.
	www.coleskingdom.com /files/TESLA.TXT (3510 words)

	1924
		April 26 - Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his "death ray" in London but fails to convince British War Office
		June 1 - Harry Grindell Matthews returns from Paris to London - he tries to use a Pathe film to demonstrate that his death ray works
		June 2 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
	www.cooldictionary.com /words/1924.wikipedia (1232 words)

	hidden city archives
		Harry Grindell-Matthews was an inventor in the classic pre-corporate mode, toiling in his workshop and weaving together ideas which (often as not) were never properly developed.
		In 1924 he announced that he had created a "death ray," an invisible beam that could "stop a motor working, kill plant life, destroy vermin, explode gunpowder, fire cartridges and light lamps," all at a considerable distance.
		He contributed to the creation of the burglar alarm and the automatic streetlight, and experimented with adding sound to movies, but most of his work was never completed.
	www.hiddencity.net /arc.asp?x=/2003_11_01_hcg.asp (4634 words)

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		The Office of Naval Research is part of a team that is developing an electrically driven, tunable laser that could transmit infrared light for use in ship-defense systems...
		By any standard Harry Grindell-Matthews was all that an eccentric scientist should be.
		Working in a remote laboratory in the Welsh mountains he claimed to have invented, among other things, an electronic beam which earned him the nickname 'Death Ray'.
	www.marsearthconnection.com /miscart9.html (7857 words)

	Tesla Wireless and the Tunguska Explosion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the Spring of 1924 newspapers carried several stories about "death rays" inventions in different parts of the world.
		The work of Harry Grindell-Matthews, London, was the first reported.
		Goldman, Harry L., "Nikola Tesla's Bold Adventure," The American West, Mar. 1971, pgs.
	www.xmission.com /~acparker/onichelson/tunguska.htm (5308 words)

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		Fortean Times has a great article on Harry Grindell Matthews, mad-scientist British inventor of the early 20th century.
		Pulp gamers, fans of forteana and "Nuzzink in ze vurld can schtop me now" electro-death-ray villains take note.
	gmskarka.blogspot.com /2004_03_07_gmskarka_archive.html (585 words)

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