In 1893, the mayor of Chicago was shot and killed in his home. That murder inspired a local priest, Brother Casimir Zeglen, to invent an early bulletproof vest. To prove the effectiveness of his ...
A bulletproof vest is put to the test as it is shot at an indoor shooting range and then cut open with a 60,000 psi waterjet cutter at the points where the bullets penetrated. This video explores the ...
A black-and-white photograph shared online as early as 2009 claims to show the demonstration of an early bulletproof vest in 1923. In the photograph, two men are seen facing each other, one in a vest ...