— Clad in tmllet-prooi jacket and headgear, .the result of eight years of experiment, Dr Guy Otis Brewster, of Dover, New Jersey, recently stood before a group of ordnance officers reoresentintr tho United States Government and experts of tho stce) and rubber companies, whilo a sergeant of ttie Nationr! Guard, standing 60ft away, fired a bullet at hira from the regulation a.rmy Sprin-field riio. The bullet, which sped wiiji the volocity of 2?4oft per second was deflected from tho jacket without in juring the wearer, and did not even loave & doott
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17081, 13 August 1917, Page 7
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