“Unbelievable Inventions: The Bizarre Secret Weapons That Almost Changed the Course of WWII!”
Sadly, Pyke’s story does not have a happy ending, with the eccentric genius ultimately committed suicide in 1948 by ingesting an entire bottle of sleeping pills and leaving a note to say it was intentional.
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Carlton, Genevieve, The True Story of the Panjandrum, A Disastrous Experimental Weapon of World War II, All That is Interesting, December 1, 2022, https://allthatsinteresting.com/panjandrum
