High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kazimierz ?egle? (Casimir Zeglen), born in 1869 near Ternopil, invented the first bulletproof vest. At the age of 18 he entered the Resurrectionist Order in Lviv. In 1890, he moved to the United States. In 1893, after the assassination of Carter Harrison, Sr., the mayor of Chicago, he invented the first bulletproof vest. In 1897, he improved it together with Jan Szczepanik who was the inventor of the first bulletproof armour in 1901. It saved the life Alfonso XIII, the King of Spain - his carriage was covered with Szczepanik's bulletproof armour when a bomb exploded near it.

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