Here’s a great 1880s(?)-style death ray for sale:
Anyone else have some good links? Pictures are OK, but the real thing would be even better!
If Indiana Jones is to be believed, there’s the Ark of the Covenant. 
600bce style death ray…Greek fire.
Here’s a 1935-style death ray.
At the bottom of the page. I like that it’s a pistol, but there’s no holster that would fit it.
And here is a 1960’s style death ray
In French!
And here is a 1960’s style death ray
In French!
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From the movie Il Raggio Infernale:
212 BC Death Ray. It may even have worked.
I could not resist violating my own rule. The following always pops into my head when I hear “death ray”:
As someone said on Wikipedia: “Now that’s a cartoon only Charles Addams could draw!”
Here’s a death ray from 1913.
One from 1924, probably the basis of the whole SDMB cliche-meme. Wikipedia article on same.
Here’s a 1950s-style nausea/anxiety ray (apparently it really worked).
See this thread on an agony ray (aka “Active Denial System”) that we might see actually deployed in Iraq. Wikipedia article.
Is there a link explaining the SDMB “Death Ray” meme? I’m sort of new here.
Any weapon predating electricity cannot, formally, be classed as a Death Ray.
The correct technical term is Infernal Device, unless it is mystic in nature. Then, it is a Artifact Of Power.
Terminology, people!