BULLET-PROOF VEST RESISTS FIRE OF THREE PISTOLS (May, 1924)
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Source: Popular Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: May, 1924
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Source: Popular Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: May, 1924
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Doesn’t this still bruise the hell out of you? Who were these “young women” who let people shoot at them?
BULLET-PROOF VEST RESISTS FIRE OF THREE PISTOLS
To demonstrate the effectiveness of a bullet-proof vest he invented, a New York man donned the garment, posed as the target and allowed three policemen to shoot at him at close range. Repeated fire of thirty-eight and forty-five caliber bullets failed to penetrate the vest. The missiles were flattened against the sides of the protector and fell harmless to the ground. Following this demonstration, young women put on the vests and also served as targets.
This is the worst photo-manipulation I’ve seen in ages.
Comment by Blurgle — December 23, 2007 @ 8:42 am
ohhh no they didnt.
sorry xmas overload
Comment by phil — December 24, 2007 @ 5:04 am
Damn you!!! My “I Want To Believe” poster now has to come down, even. And I thought *I* was a sceptic. But I guess us scientists are the easiest to fool, thinking a picture is a picture, since all *our* friends (fellow scientists) don’t tend to fake pictures.
I know it’s fake though, since I researched such vest materials, half a century after this blurb. And they don’t let bullets go into bodies, but they still let bullets break ribs, since it’s like taking a punch from a professional boxer, bare-fisted, unless you want it to weigh 85 pounds, which you don’t.
There is no way to make a perfect BPV (bullet proof vest), and it will take another 100 years to make it.
Saw a kung-foo movie once. They deflected bullets by angling their palms as they arrived. Not as good as The Matrix through, since they kept using the same stupid trick a hundred times in two hours.
Comment by NikFromNYC — January 11, 2008 @ 11:42 pm
It’s a real vest. While the picture is a bad re-enactment (The distance was greater than that) the vests from the 1920s and 30s could stop a .38 special bullet fired from ten yards, a .45 acp at sixteen. The old vests used STEEL or DURALUMINUM alowing the wearer to withstand “blunt action trama”.
Comment by KHarn — March 2, 2008 @ 3:28 pm