Page 6 - All About History - Issue 18-14

CONFIDENCE IN A PRODUCT
A policeman demonstrates how safe a bulletproof vest is by
allowing a colleague to shoot him in the chest from relatively
close range. The first record of a bulletproof vest is from
the 16th century, when Francesco Maria della Rovere, the
duke of Urbino, commissioned one to be made for
him. By the start of the 20th century policemen
and criminals were wearing vests that could
absorb the impact of a bullet.
1920s

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