Fifteenth-Century Italian Armors, Helmets and Tools as Models for the Improvement of Airmen's Armors and Helmets
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Fifteenth-Century Italian Armors, Helmets and Tools as Models for the Improvement of Airmen's Armors and Helmets
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Medieval Tools Shape Air Armor
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ARMOR that was worn by Italian nobles before Columbus discovered America, and the tools with which it was fashioned, are being used today in the design of aviators’ armor. In New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which houses 10,000 items of arms and armor besides the world's largest collection of armorers’ tools, Steven Grancsay, curator of this branch, heads a secret workshop where models for both head and body armor are made for the Army Ordnance Department.
The work, consisting entirely of experimentation aimed at the improvement of body armor and helmets worn by fighting airmen, is conducted by Mr. Grancsay and his two assistants behind a steel door marked “No Admittance.” The preliminary work on a helmet model includes the spreading and shaping of a rough mass of soft Swedish iron with blows of a drawing hammer, one of the Museum’s collection of authentic armorers’ tools. The finishing touches are given on a long-armed anvil known as a drawing stake.
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eng
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Data di rilascio
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1944-04
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81
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by
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Lorenzo Chinellato
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
