Category: Electromagnetic Weapons

• The "Marconi" Wireless Murder

  This theory claimed that Guglielmo Marconi’s wireless technology could be focused into a deadly beam capable of injuring or killing people at a distance. It belongs to an early twentieth-century family of fears about electromagnetic force, invisible radiation, and so-called “death rays.” The theory grew from the astonishing reputation of wireless telegraphy itself, from real public anxiety about the bodily effects of radio waves, and from later press stories attaching Marconi’s name to electromagnetic weapons.