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Life saving leathers and personal injury
From the day our primitive ancestor picked up a rock and threw it at prey, an adversary or its mate, the development of weapons and armour began. We tend to think of clothes coming into being as a means of keeping warm or, in the case of Adam and Eve, for covering nudity, but animal skins have been worn for protection during hunting from the earliest of times. I suppose once Neanderthal man stood upright and began to lose his ape hair, he discovered that bare flesh was susceptible to every scratch going; and the prevention of personal injury became a pressing concern.
And from the day that another homo erectus threw a rock back at our lovely predecessor, it is imaginable he decided, in his primitive wisdom, that he should protect himself. Huzzah, the cogent necessity for the shield was born. Little did he know that in the 21st century man would be able to cover every inch of himself in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and that in the workplace there would be health and safety legislation of seemingly inexhaustible quantity; all made available to protect him from hurting himself or being hurt by others.
I wonder how early arrow head makers would have reacted to today's blade protection in the form of slash resistant gloves? For a fraction under forty pounds you can buy a pair of gloves made from Spectre fibre ~ a high density polythene fibre ten times stronger than steel and 40% stronger than Kevlar. It is light enough to float on water, and has a melting point of 150(c. And, as an added bonus, is invisible to current radar tracking.
Sadly, the development of this type of protective clothing is only necessary as protection from the panoply of weaponry out there today, and as the guns and knives get smaller, cheaper and more available, so the arrival of the stab-proof school uniform has hit the headlines. Yes, metal detectors in schools and teachers wearing body armour - weapons and personal protective equipment has come a long way.
However, when looking into Kevlar jeans as an alternative to leather trousers for motorbike riders, I found much argument amongst the two wheeled petrol-heads out there. Many riders, who had experienced accidents, swore that their life saving leathers, quite literally, saved their skin. Whilst amongst the opposition, certain factions feel sure there is a lighter, cooler, equally safe option to be had by utilising the science of modern ballistics protection.
Did our caveman friend ever think as he skinned a deer and wrapped the pelt around his feet that 350,000 or so years later, the same material would still be the personal injury protection of choice for humans who can travel over tarmac at several hundred miles an hour? Of course he didn't, he hadn't invented the wheel yet!
