Grindell-Matthews & His Death Ray
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'.
Born in 1880, Grindell-Matthews was educated at Bristol Merchant Venturers' College (England) and at nineteen volunteered for the Boer War, in which he was twice wounded. Trained as a research scientist, specialising in electricity, he was intrigued by the possibilities of radio telephony, then in its infancy, and as early as 1911, from Ely racecourse, Cardiff, he succeeded in conversing with the airman B C Hucks in a plane two miles away and travelling at 600 mph.
Read on to discover the tale of Grindell-Matthews & His Death Ray
Born in 1880, Grindell-Matthews was educated at Bristol Merchant Venturers' College (England) and at nineteen volunteered for the Boer War, in which he was twice wounded. Trained as a research scientist, specialising in electricity, he was intrigued by the possibilities of radio telephony, then in its infancy, and as early as 1911, from Ely racecourse, Cardiff, he succeeded in conversing with the airman B C Hucks in a plane two miles away and travelling at 600 mph.
Read on to discover the tale of Grindell-Matthews & His Death Ray
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