Nah. Just a bunch of salt, if I remember right.
and I am proud to have been the first to jump on it. 
A likely story. You and that squirrel no doubt have some Secret Agenda.
But is there anyone who could beat a 1920s style “Death Ray”? Say, some crimefighter or other?
And it better not have any foam in it.
BTW, anybody know what kind of bulb the guy is using on the emitter?
Of course not. It clearly hasn’t been attached to a power supply yet, and the camera operator is off to a side, out of range.
I’m trying more to figure out the design. The silhouette looks vaguely familiar, but it doesn’t match any I own or am familiar with.
I wonder if this device (what was it called again?) was developed in Texas, or perhaps in one of the adjoining Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, or Tamaulipas.
Only if he (rather unexpectedly) expected the Spanish Inquisition.
Actually, last time I looked we have no 'genda at all. . . .
So, you’re saying that he’d have to be prepared, right?
I suppose that’s one way of looking at it. I would give another way, but since I don’t have three I won’t bother with a list.
There are manufacturers there, but no one of import in the early days was based there.
(Before looking at me as if I’ve gone mad, read this)
The heck with that… will it work if it’s on a treadmill?
Yep, but it’s best not to try it at home: some go berserk when damaged and the short fall off a treadmill can be enough to eliminate the neighbors.
I’ve just thought of a great use for this! Say you’re on a game show and you’ve picked Door No. 1, and your patronisingly smiling host opens Door No. 2 and asks if you want to keep #1 or switch to #3. You out with this cool toy, sight down it and say sweetly “Just stop fucking about and hand over the car, already” and he can make something of it if he wants to.
But the big question, of course, is whether the car is red or maroon.
Death Ray? fiddlesticks, why it doesn’t even slow them up.
Ray, the guy, who buys me beer.
In the 1920’s. Someone had to. Prohibition and all.
So it’s a 1930’s style Death Ray?
The Brits wanted to develop a 1940s style death ray to shoot down German planes during the Battle of Britain, but the best they could come up with was radar.
And intercepted German secret messages convinced the Brits that the Germans were developing a 1940s style “Death Ray”, although they subsequently found out that it was actually the V-2 ballistic missile.