“Death Rocket Rains Fiery Metal”

Unsigned article on Ernest Welsh’s anti-aircraft “death rocket,” profiled the following year in Vestnik Znaniya, also in this collection. Welsh, an amateur inventor of North Ferriby, East Yorkshire, claimed his three-foot rocket could climb five miles and burst a charge of 700 molten-metal pellets over a 100-square-yard area, a barrage he proposed for defending cities against air raids. Popular Science Monthly, November 1924, p.40.