Testing a bulletproof shield in the 1920s- photo

**Altair** · Dec 16, 2020, 09:27 PM

Policemen testing a bulletproof shield in the 1920s. Holding up the shield is its inventor, Elliot Wisbrod.

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Previously:

1923 bulletproof vest test - photo
Composite metal foam armor - GIF
Fired bullet shape comparisons - photo
Bullet passing through ballistics gel - GIF
Water-filled balloons stopping a bullet - GIF

**jimfols** · Dec 17, 2020, 07:20 PM

Faith in your shield is one thing, faith in the shooters is sumit else.

**trigger** · Dec 17, 2020, 08:21 PM

The good old days,Harris hold this shield thingy!!!! I want to see if it works,the rest of you stand closer I also want to see if the ricocheting slugs can kill you?

**neilbourjaily** · Dec 17, 2020, 08:41 PM

Most assuredly, I would not have been behind that shield. Nope.

**Scotsman Hosie** · Dec 18, 2020, 02:19 AM

Murphy's Law says someone would eventually screw up and put a round through that little window up top.

**BuckhornLogging** · Dec 18, 2020, 07:06 AM

So, does Workers Compensation cover such things? After all, there ARE a few witnesses!

**mlochala** · Dec 18, 2020, 10:11 AM

Somebody call OSHA. There's not one person in that photo wearing hearing protection or safety glasses. Good thing they have on their ricochet proof business duds.

**jdurand** · Dec 18, 2020, 06:35 PM

Many years ago my lady was a police officer and stopped a round with her bullet resistant vest, center chest. She said not to believe any movie that shows someone getting hit and barely flinching. She was in the hospital for a while with a large bruise on her chest.

**Rajotte** · Dec 19, 2020, 08:58 PM

The guy holding it explains what people are willing to do for prospective profit from their product, his possible bonus was worth the risk in his mind at that wild time in history.