Attempt to locate the Z-Ray. Set in future 1930. Some science. Some mentions of current tech. Murders of people who want the Z-Ray. quote: beastly scientific gadgets. Story focuses on a scientist and his secret and how society wants to wrest something like that from him and his constant fight to keep it. Aeroplanes fitted with it have force fields quote set the electric current to magentise the outer zone The Ray of Death. The Ray machine. Creates an electrical zone and shoots death rays. The silent projected beam is turned by the scientist on himself and he is fried at the end. Published in 1925 as a novel.
