Electric Glove for Police Stuns Victims With 1,500 Volts (Sep, 1935)
Electric Glove for Police Stuns Victims With 1,500 Volts
MORE punch than can be found in a box-glove is contained in a new electric glove invented by Cirilo Diaz of Cuba for use by police while handling rough characters or in quelling riots. Persons contacted by an officer wearing the glove receive a 1,500-volt shock, sufficient to remove all traces of fight. A half-pound battery worn on the belt supplies the power, all wiring being concealed beneath the coat.
Police officials in New York where the device was first demonstrated, were favorably impressed by its effectiveness.
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Comment by smirenger — January 26, 2008 @ 5:48 am
Don’t touch me bro’!!!!
Comment by Neil Russell — January 26, 2008 @ 9:15 am
Gee, I didn’t see that one coming!
Comment by Firebrand38 — January 26, 2008 @ 1:34 pm
What if he puts his hands on his hips…?
Comment by Khu — January 26, 2008 @ 2:41 pm
No utilice el taser en mí bro
Comment by Brandon — January 26, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
Where’s the rest of the article ?? . .and why did you remove it ?
Comment by Skizmo — January 26, 2008 @ 3:08 pm
imagine if he scratches his balls , what happens then, I found an even funnier comment here, http://www.opentopix.com/topic.....e-shocking
Comment by steve wang — January 26, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
it is highly dangerous !!!!!
Comment by rakesh — January 26, 2008 @ 7:59 pm
They were looking for something to protect the officers then and they still do today.
We Got Security
Comment by joe — January 27, 2008 @ 12:47 pm
Call me cynical, but the picture looks altered. Could we get a source / citation? Looks like it came out of a newspaper, so should be easy enough to verify if we can get a paper, as we have an approximate date.
Comment by Apprentice_Wizard — January 28, 2008 @ 12:55 pm
The source is stated above, it’s the September 1935 issue of Modern Mechanix. The image is altered. In the actual scan there was another article that began below that one. I removed it because it looks ugly to have one paragraph of an unrelated story in the image.
Comment by Charlie — January 28, 2008 @ 12:57 pm
A glove of this type was used to subdue a California prisoner in Tom Wolfe’s recent novel, “A Man in Full”.
Comment by Robert Traina — February 4, 2008 @ 12:30 pm
I wonder why the glove didn’t take off until the arrival of the Taser (a non-glove but the concept was the same)? Was it fear of electrocuting people? Or was it the cost of the glove, the war, and subsequent usage of tear gas sprays?
Comment by KA Turner — March 16, 2008 @ 9:18 pm
Itchy balls could be a problem
Comment by Yossarian — April 5, 2008 @ 7:22 pm
Tasers have a much longer ranger than the glove. The wire on the glove doesn’t even look long enough to allow him to extend his arm fully. If you’re trying to disable someone who has a gun with an electric shock, you probably don’t want to get close enough to touch them.
As far as various itches go, there was probably a mandatory safety briefing on using your right hand to scratch.
Comment by Benzene — April 6, 2008 @ 1:48 am