DISINTEGRATOR

DISINTEGRATOR
   In sf TERMINOLOGY, one of the commonest items of the sf armoury (WEAPONS), especially in SPACE OPERA of the 1930s and 1940s. The device may have been a product of squeamishness-or perhaps just neatness - since it creates a maximum of destruction with a minimum of bleeding pieces left to sweep up afterwards. The disintegrator first reached a wide audience with the COMIC strip BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY in 1935, as a result of which toy disintegrators were very popular with kids in the late 1930s.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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