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Show Blast of Bomb Is Seldom Found Fatal Resistance of Human Body Proven to Be High. LONDON. . A young English anatomist. Prof. S. Zuckerman, famous fa-mous for his researches ito the anthropoid ape, believes the human body can resist bombs and their blast far more effectively than bricks, mortar and concrete. Since the bombing of Britain's towns and cities by the Luftwaffe began it has been generally held that blast would destroy the lungs or other vital parts, but the main damage is due to bruising caused by the impact, of the blast wave on the body's wall. Some people have been killed by the blast itself, but hundreds have escaped even the slightest injury, while brick and concrete buildings have collapsed. Others have been in rooms in which bombs have exploded. The buildings have collapsed around them, but they have escaped unhurt One man was only 25 feet away from a 2,000-bomb. If a person throws himself down when he hears a bomb coming there is' only a slight chance of his being I hurt by the blast itself. Most of airraid air-raid casualties are caused by falling fall-ing debris. Research and experiment on this question of bomb blasts have resulted re-sulted in the design of shelters being be-ing altered. A government laboratory recently designed a new-type steel helmet for fire watchers and civil defense workers. work-ers. It was criticized on the ground that it was not as strong as the type used by the services. It was tested. This is what happened. hap-pened. Live ammunition was fired at one of them at a velocity of between be-tween 350 and 400 feet a second. The helmet was only slightly dented. |