29 July 1910: ‘A small protection about the head and shoulders might accomplish all the inequity between life and death’Mr. Rudyard Kipling contributes to this week’s number of “The Car” the foregoing diagrams illustrating an idea of his for a suit of pneumatic armour for the protection of flying men from injury by at any rate slighter falls. “A small protection about the head and shoulders,” he writes, “might accomplish all the inequity between life and death at the moment of the smash.”
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Source: theguardian.com