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 avia-
tors’ armor. In New York's Metropolitan
Museum of Art, which houses 10,000 items
of arms and armor besides the world's larg-
est 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 experi-
mentation 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 Admit- |
tance.” The prelim-
inary work on a hel- |
met model includes
the spreading and
shaping of a rough
mass of soft Swed-
ish iron with blows
of a drawing ham-
mer, one of the Mu-
seum’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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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1944-04
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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81
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Lorenzo Chinellato
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 144, n. 4, 1944
