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Found Rocky's WTC Disintegrator Ray for real demo to follow in newsgroup

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Disintegrator Ray (Dis Ray) 	
   	A device that projects a beam reducing matter to nothingness. 	


 From "Armageddon: 2419 A.D.", by Philip Frances Nowlan.
Published by Amazing Stories in 1928


"In about 2109, it seems the conflict was finally precipitated. The 
Mongolians, with overwhelming fleets of great airships, and a science 
that far outstripped that of crippled America, swept in over the Pacific 
and Atlantic Coasts, and down from Canada, annihilating American 
aircraft, armies and cities with their terrific disintegrator ray. These 
rays were projected from a machine not unlike a searchlight in 
appearance, the reflector of which, however, was not material substance, 
but a complicated balance of interacting electronic forces. This 
resulted in a terribly destructive beam. Under its influence, material 
substance melted into "nothingness"; i.e., into electronic vibrations. 
It destroyed all then known substances, from air to the most dense 
metals and stone."

Edmund Hamilton described something quite similar to this in his novel 
Crashing Suns, published the same year. See the entry for de-atomizing ray.

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