Word: plastron
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Like navigation, electrodynamics, foil fencing is an exact science. Its only drawback is the necessity for sharp-eyed judges crouching on the sidelines to shout "touche" every time a fencer's sword point touches the plastron of his adversary...
...device, dubbed by frivolous reporters "Massard's Stab Register," consists of a pair of electrified foils and a pair of electrified plastrons (chest protectors), the whole connected by delicate thread-like wires. In place of the rubber tip on an ordinary foil, is a small metallic ball and spring. Wires run up the fencer's sleeves and out through an opening in the back of his coat, trail out behind him on the mat. When the positive tip of one foil strikes the negatively charged plastron of an adversary, a gong rings, and a touch is marked...
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