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Aktungbby
06-21-14, 12:33 PM
Dupont chemist Stephanie Kwolek passed away: Age 90. She discovered the magic fiber while while searching for stronger-than-steel replacements for automobiles...KEVLAR in 1965! " I knew that I had made a discovery. I didn't shout Eureka but I was very excited as was the whole laboratory...we were looking at something new, something different and this was it!" I still wear my hot, bulky Safariland triple threat vest with shock-plate nearly every day and, along with countless police and soldiers who cannot ascribe to "the best armor is to stay OFF the battlefield", have gratefully settled for second best: (the vest), since '94. Even my thin gloves are Kevlar lined to prevent HIV needle sticks when conducting searches. Generally $peaking, when in full kit, I'm the be$t dre$$ed guy out there... and I get back home again! A real game changer! Forever indebted Ma'am: RIP!:salute:
Betonov
06-21-14, 01:05 PM
Back in the Yugoslavia that was, the police were issued kevlar vests, but they decided that your average conscript in the army doesn't need one.
When the brown stuff hit the fan in 1991 we had an advantage, a third of the force fighting for independence was the police.

RIP, I hate it when people that actually contributed something die.
Stealhead
06-21-14, 09:01 PM
Not to discredit this woman but she was the inventor of Kevlar she however was not the one to first use Kevlar in body armor that honor goes to Richard Davis a former Marine and pizzeria owner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chance_%28body_armor%29
Jimbuna
06-22-14, 05:20 AM
Not to discredit this woman but she was the inventor of Kevlar she however was not the one to first use Kevlar in body armor that honor goes to Richard Davis a former Marine and pizzeria owner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chance_%28body_armor%29

Indeed, I remember going on a seminar in London with the Metropolitan Police to witness the testing of some of his early designs.

Links to a couple of YouTube demeonstrations:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnnLgmNVQ5I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIhyETXW1u0