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- From: adamsd@crash.cts.com (Adams Douglas)
- Subject: Re: How to kill chickens with your computer...
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- Date: 21 Nov 92 00:06:46 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov13.134921.1730@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> <zlsiida.435@fs1.mcc.ac.uk>
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- In <zlsiida.435@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:
- >I seem to recall something from about 20 to 25 years ago about a Frenchman
- >who built a gigantic whistle that was supposed to produce a frequency (plus
- >overtones) at around 7Hz, and when it was switched on the operator died and
- >the whistle disintegrated. It was probably in one of those silly Lyall
- >Watson books though.
-
- There was a cover article on the same topic in 1967 or '68 in _Science_and_
- Mechanics_ (or was it _Mechanix_Illustrated_?). Now, granted these were not
- magazines of the same caliber as _Popular_Science_ even. But I recall a
- cover picture of an array (7 x 7?) of large metal whistles with rubber tubes
- from each of them trailing out of frame. Inside was a fairly lurid article
- dealing with the "death ray" properties of infrasonics. They mentioned
- experimenters pointing the pictured 7 Hz. device at a tree full of monkeys
- (this may have been a French colony) and watching the monkeys fall out of
- the trees.
-
- Anybody find the article in their garage
- let me know.
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