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2. Second Chance (body armor) - Wikipedia

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   Second Chance is an American body armor manufacturing company. The company was founded in the early 1970s by U.S. Marine and pizza delivery owner/driver Richard Davis. Davis developed the idea of a bulletproof vest after shooting three armed robbers in self-defense during a delivery.

3. Kevlar - Wikipedia

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   Kevlar (para-aramid) [2] is a strong, heat-resistant synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora.Developed by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont in 1965, [3] [2] [4] the high-strength material was first used commercially in the early 1970s as a replacement for steel in racing tires.

4. Adhesive tape - Wikipedia

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   Dennison Mending Tape from the second half of the 20th century. From the Museo del Objeto del Objeto collection. Pressure-sensitive tape, PSA tape, self-stick tape or sticky tape consists of a pressure sensitive adhesive coated onto a backing material such as paper, plastic film, cloth, or metal foil. It is sticky (tacky) without any heat or ...

5. How to order free at-home COVID-19 tests from the government

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   Americans can order free at-home COVID-19 test kits from the government. Here's everything you need to know to get free rapid tests for COVID testing at home.

6. Duct tape - Wikipedia

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   Wheel fender extension to keep down lunar dust improvised using duct tape during the Apollo 17 mission. The first material called "duck tape" was long strips of plain non-adhesive cotton duck cloth used in making shoes stronger, for decoration on clothing, and for wrapping steel cables or electrical conductors to protect them from corrosion or wear. [4]

7. Tape - Wikipedia

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   Masking tape, also known as painter's tape or sticky tape, a type of pressure-sensitive tape made of a thin and easy-to-tear paper, and an easily released pressure-sensitive adhesive Pressure-sensitive tape , adhesive tape that will stick with application pressure, without the need for solvent, heat, or water

8. Niwar (cotton tape) - Wikipedia

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   Niwar is a textile product produced on tape looms and classified as a narrow-width fabric. [3] Baden Henry Powell referred to it as "broad coarse tape", a product of the jail industry . In his book Handbook of the Manufactures and Arts of the Punjab , Powell classified niwar under the category of "tape, string, and miscellaneous cotton products ...

9. Casimir Zeglen - Wikipedia

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   Born in 1869 in Kaczanówka near Tarnopol, at the age of 18 he entered the Resurrectionist Order in Lwów (today Lviv). In 1890, he moved to the United States.. In 1893, after the assassination of Carter Harrison Sr., the mayor of Chicago, he worked on an improved silk bulletproof vest.