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See Directed-energy Weapon for various real weapons which are more or less like rayguns. :''See Directed-energy Weapon#Mythology for energy weapons in ancient mythologies. See Directed-energy_weapon#Tesla for reports that Tesla made a real raygun or similar. See Electrolaser for an electric current sent down a laser beam. HISTORY A very early example is the Heat-Ray featured in H. G. Wells ' '' The War Of The Worlds '', which was published in 1898 . Science fiction as far back as the 1920s emphasized death rays as the weapons of choice. Early science fiction often showed raygun beams making bright light and loud noise like Lightning or large Electric Arc s. When the Laser , invented in 1960 , became industrial reality in the 1960s , the generic fictional death rays were often renamed "lasers". See Science Fiction Weapon . By the late 1960s and 1970s however, the laser's limits as a weapon were evident, and less specific terms such as " Phaser " (see '' Star Trek '') or "blaster" (see '' Star Wars '') were used. TYPES The ray fired is stated in each scenario to be Laser or Particle Beam or Plasma , or some form of energy which does not exist in the real world, or is undefined. Sometimes in science fiction stories, rayguns are used for metal cutting like Blowtorch es. In some science fiction, some rayguns have a firing mode that can stun its target instead of killing. Rayguns under their various names come in various sizes and forms: Pistol ; two-handed (often called a Rifle ); mounted on a vehicle; Artillery -sized mounted on a Spaceship or space base or Asteroid or Planet . The pistol form is seen most often. A "beam gun" in Anime is an Energy Weapon which fires a colored beam of Light . "FX-Ray is the Show Biz acronym for Special Effects . Many rayguns do not behave like classical Laser s or Particle Beam s:-
Rayguns are a great variety of shapes and sizes, according to the imagination of the story writers and movie ) are not. WHY RAYGUNS ARE NOT GENERALLY KNOWN TO EXIST IN THE REAL WORLD There are these reasons:-
REAL RAYGUNS? Recent developments in the real world in Laser Guns have produced artillery-sized weapons which might be described as rayguns, but usually are not. Also see Electrolaser . IN SPECIFIC SCENARIOS SEE ALSO
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